Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Jerez de la Frontera)

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The Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel ( Spanish Basilica Menor de Nuestra Señora del Carmen ) is a monastery church in Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia , Spain . The baroque church from the beginning of the 18th century was built in 1968 by Pope Paul VI. raised to a minor basilica .

history

The basilica towers over the roofs of the old town.

The Carmelite Order was the first to be established within the city walls of Jerez after the Reconquest. They first settled in the old Benedictine monastery outside the city walls in 1587. Shortly afterwards, in 1600, they moved to their current location, where a chapel was built in front of the current church. The basilica is part of the only monastery built within the walls. Construction began in the mid-seventeenth century and was consecrated on November 17, 1727.

On April 23, 1925, the canonical coronation of the image of the Virgin of Carmen took place at the Miguel Primo de Rivera , King Alfonso XIII. and Queen Victoria Eugénie von Battenberg , attended by princes and government ministers. The coronation took place in Gonzalez Hontoria Park in Jerez.

Building

inner space

The main entrance dates from 1731. It has only one of the two towers whose construction was originally planned. The facade is richly decorated and highlights the arches, pilasters and Corinthian columns. In the niche there is a picture of the Virgin of Carmen.

The church has a rectangular plan and consists of three naves. In 1878 and 1880 it was extensively restored by the engineer Federico Rivero, the painter José María Rodríguez de Losada and the decorator Ramón Orellana. The main altarpiece was made at the end of the 19th century. It has the images of the Holy Angel and Saint Albert and a large canvas depicting the Rapture of Elijah in the chariot of fire. In its central part is the cloakroom of the Virgen del Carmen from the 18th century

The organ was built in 1894 by Francisco de Paula Romero. The pulpit is a baroque work from the second half of the 18th century.

museum

The Provincial Carmelite Museum of Sacred Art was inaugurated on April 13, 1980, but was not opened to the public until 2018. It houses more than a thousand pieces cataloged in the artistic heritage of the Betica Province6, mainly from the 16th to 19th centuries.

Web links

Commons : Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Basilica of Our Lady of Carmel at gcatholic.org
  2. ↑ 50 años al servicio de Jerez de la Frontera. In: Diario de Jerez. June 21, 2018, accessed March 21, 2020 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ 433 años dejando tu rastro: ¡Gracias, Señora! (I). In: Diario de Jerez. July 15, 2019, accessed March 21, 2020 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Historia de la Basilica (Spanish)
  5. ↑ El Carmen en Jerez (Spanish)
  6. ^ Churches with Canonically Crowned Images on gcatholic.org
  7. ↑ Museo Provincial Carmelitano de Arte Sacro (Spanish)

Coordinates: 36 ° 41 ′ 3.1 ″  N , 6 ° 8 ′ 21.9 ″  W.