Our Lady of Mount Carmel | |
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Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel | |
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Location | Aguada, Montevideo |
Address | Libertador Avenue |
Country | Uruguay |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
History | |
Founded | 1861 |
Dedication | Our Lady of Mount Carmel |
Consecrated | 1866 |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Parish |
Architectural type | Neoclassical architecture |
Years built | 1890 |
The Church of Our Lady of the Mount Carmel ( Spanish: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen), popularly known as Iglesia de la Aguada, is a Roman Catholic parish church in Montevideo, Uruguay. [1]
Originally there was a small church where, in 1829, the First Constituent Assembly was summoned. [2]
The current temple it was created in 1861 and built in 1890 , in a neoclassical style with two bell towers on its main façade. It was declared a parish on September 8, 1866 by the bishop of Montevideo Jacinto Vera . [1]
The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a very popular devotion of the Virgin Mary.
In the 1930s, as a result of the construction of the Diagonal Agraciada, its neoclassical façade had to be demolished and rebuilt in 1935 by the architects Elzeario Boix y Horacio Terra.
There are other churches in Uruguay dedicated to Our Lady of the Mount Carmel:
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