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Church altar in 2012. The San Salvador del Mundo Church is designed as a fortress church mainly made of limestone blocks, corals and wood. The church's main door has inscription that bears a symbol of Christ which dates the structure's foundation in 1884. The interior has undergone much renovation since the church's centenary in 1996.
The iconic statue of Christ on the globe sphere of planet Earth is part of the Monument to Divino Salvador del Mundo on Plaza El Salvador del Mundo (The Savior of the World Plaza). The statue was damaged in the 1986 San Salvador earthquake. [3] [4] It was rebuilt and put back in place months after the campaign "Lift up your soul Salvadoran".
The Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (Spanish: Banco Central de El Salvador) is the central bank of El Salvador, which controls the currency rate and regulates certain economic activities within El Salvador. The bank was originally privately owned, but was brought under state control through The Law on the Reorganization of Central Banking.
The second wooden cathedral, completed in 1888, served as the seat of San Salvador's archbishops. On August 8, 1951, the Old San Salvador Cathedral was consumed by fire as a distraught crowd of onlookers watched. [1] For the next forty years, the San Salvador Cathedral was a barren concrete structure of exposed bricks and jutting iron buttresses.
On the south side buildings were built to house institutions such as the Cabildo (city administrative offices), the post office and the public prison, and to the east, the parish church dedicated to Santísimo Salvador del Mundo (the Holy Savior of the World), now the Church El Rosario. The area became the political, economic and religious ...
The Iglesia del Dios Vivo, Columna y Apoyo de la Verdad, La Luz del Mundo (Spanish: [iˈɣlesja ðel ˈdjos ˈβiβo koˈlumnaj aˈpoʝo ðe la βeɾˈðað la ˈlus ðel ˈmundo]; English: "Church of the Living God, Pillar and Ground of the Truth, The Light of the World")—or simply La Luz del Mundo (LLDM)—is a nontrinitarian Christian denomination in the Restorationist tradition, with ...
The cruzeiro of the São Francisco Church stands 8 metres (26 ft) on a square base of 5.5 metres (18 ft) by 5.5 metres (18 ft). The cross is dated 1807 and has an inscription Latin. The square in front of the São Francisco Church is now named for the cross, and is known as the Largo do Cruzeiro de São Francisco.
A line that shines throughout the year is found at the top of the tower and is locally known as the " 'Luz del Salvador'. [1] It is thought that the castle of Robda (destroyed during 1476–1478) was previously located on the site. The church architects were the brothers Pedro and Juan de Alviz.