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The Santo Domingo Convent, or Basilic of Our Lady of the Rosary and Convent of Santo Domingo is a convent for Our Lady of the Rosary located in the Monserrat neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Built during the colonial times, it was the scenario of a military conflict during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
The Basilica and Maximus Convent of Nuestra Señora del Rosario, popularly known as the Convent of Santo Domingo (or Convent of the Holy Rosary), is a Catholic religious complex located in the city of Lima, Peru. It was created in the 1530s under the patronage of Our Lady of the Rosary and is located in the Historic Centre of Lima.
Convent of San Domingos de Bonaval in Santiago de Compostela (1220s-1830s) Convent of Santo Domingo in Valencia (1239-1835) Dominican Convent in Zaragoza (1250-19th century) Convent of Saint Dominic in Girona (1253-1827) Convento de San Esteban, Salamanca in Salamanca (since c.1255) Iglesia de San Pablo in Valladolid (since 1270)
The convent was founded by St. Dominic de Guzman (who went on pilgrimage to Santiago in 1219) in the early thirteenth century. The oldest document which cites the convent, with the original name of Santa Maria, dates back to 1228. From the fifteenth century, it appears with the title of Santo Domingo, and under the patronage of the house of ...
The church sustained extensive damage in the 8.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the region on Sept. 7, 2017.
The Convento de Santo Domingo is a Catholic convent established from the 16th century in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. Its canonical name was Convento de San Daniel . Until 19th century, it housed a community from the Dominican Order .
Much of its stonework was used as the foundation for the seventeenth-century Santo Domingo Convent. It was built after the 1650 earthquake destroyed the first Dominican convent. To construct Coricancha, the Inca used ashlar masonry, building from the placement of similarly sized cuboid stones that they hand cut and shaped for this purpose. [18]
The Church and Convent of Santo Domingo de Guzmán (Spanish: Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán) in the city of Oaxaca de Juárez is an example of New Spanish Baroque architecture. The first construction projects for the building date back to 1551, when the Antequera de Oaxaca's City Council ceded a total of twenty-four lots to the Dominican ...