Basílica del Salvador

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North facade of the Basilica del Salvador

The Basílica del Salvador is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Santiago de Chile and the archbishopric of the same name . The Chilean church is dedicated to Salvator mundi and is one of six churches in the city that has the title of a minor basilica . It is in a deplorable condition due to the earthquakes that struck central Chile in 1985 and 2010.

description

The hall church in neo-Gothic style has three naves with the same height, an architectural feature originating from Germany and unique in Chile. The side aisles end without a triforium in small chapels next to the main altar. The interior is illuminated by tall lead glass windows made in Belgium . Both the scaled columns and the walls and vaults are richly adorned and extensively decorated with gold. The interior and murals were painted by Aristódemo Lattanza, the sketches of the altars and altarpieces by the painter Onofre Jarpa Labra . The main facade is characterized by its brickwork. In the risalit , the three pointed arch covers give access to a narthex , which is characterized by the richness of its decoration and the vaults. On the outside of the church, a narrow, arcade-like gallery runs along the two side walls and surrounds the apse . The basilica is monumental in size and, with a length of 98 meters, a width of 37 meters and an interior height of 30 meters, can accommodate five thousand people, comparable only to the Cathedral of Santiago de Chile.

history

Support for the side wall damaged by the earthquake

After the great fire that started in the church Iglesia de la Compañía in 1863, Archbishop Rafael Valdivieso ordered the construction of a new church in 1864, and the foundation stone was laid in 1870. The German architect Theodor (Teodoro) Burchard, who came to the country in 1885, was commissioned with the construction, later the construction was continued by the Chilean architect Josué Smith Solar. The church was consecrated in 1900 , the church furnishings were completed by 1920. The construction was completed in 1932 with the completion of the facade after sixty years, whereby the originally planned church towers were omitted. Pope Pius XI elevated the church to the rank of minor basilica on October 20, 1937 . The basilica was named a Historic Monument in 1977. Until 1984 the procession of the Virgin of Carmen began in the church.

The basilica is in a bad state of preservation due to the severe damage caused by the earthquake of March 3, 1985. The consequences of the earthquake were the breaking of the west wall, the fall of part of the vaults on the church stalls and the loss of the stucco on the facade. Several attempts to restore it were unsuccessful. The earthquake on February 27, 2010 exacerbated the building's location and destroyed part of the roof, a side wall and several of the four-meter-high stained glass that had been brought from Munich in the 19th century. In 2011 it was announced that the Ministry of Public Affairs was preparing a project on structural support and safety measures for a future renovation project. This also includes the creation of a photographic documentation of the ornaments and leaded glass windows still preserved in the church . The security measures continued in 2017.

Web links

Commons : Basílica del Salvador  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Basílica del Salvador en Santiago de Chile: Propuesta de Reparación de Patologías de Grietas y Fisuras en Albañilería de Ladrillo y Aglomerante de Cal. (Spanish)
  2. ↑ a b c Decreto Supremo No. 933 of November 24, 1977: Basílica del Salvador. Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales, archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; Retrieved November 11, 2013 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Basílica del Salvador on gcatholic.org
  4. ↑ Alejandro Bruna, Rocío Valdez: Bellas Artes, Biblioteca y Basílica del Salvador entre patrimonio más perjudicado. La Tercera , March 1, 2010, accessed September 28, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Benjamin Blanco: Basílica del Salvador se salva de la demolición. La Tercera , December 30, 2011, accessed December 30, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Karen González: Las deudas del patrimonio nacional. La Tercera , May 27, 2017, accessed September 28, 2017 .

Coordinates: 33 ° 26 ′ 28.7 ″  S , 70 ° 39 ′ 42.5 ″  W.