Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Recife)
The Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel ( Portuguese Basilica de Nossa Senhora do Carmo ) is a monastery church of the Carmelites in the district of Santo Antonio of the Brazilian coastal city of Recife .
history
The Carmelites , who came to Brazil in 1580, also settled in Recife in 1654 after the Dutch were driven out. They received parts of the Boa Vista fortress built under Johann Moritz in 1643 as a donation and built their monastery on it. In 1665 the construction of the basilica in the Baroque style began, which was completed in 1767. Our Lady of Mount Carmel was named the patron saint of Recife in 1909, and in 1919 she was canonically crowned . The church was founded in 1922 by Pope Pius XI. raised to the rank of a minor basilica . In 1938 the complex with basilica and monastery was listed by the Institute for National and Historical Heritage .
architecture
The imposing risalit of the church has many volutes carved in stone , both floors have three openings. The triangular gable shows the order's coat of arms. The church tower on the left rises with four floors and its onion dome about 50 meters high, the right one is unfinished. The interior has a valuable, gilded decoration, especially the choir with its high altar . This shows a life-size Nossa Senhora do Carmo, flanked by angels and saints. The twelve side altars are also richly decorated, especially the altars of the Virgin of Candelaria , Teresa of Ávila and St. Crispin and Crispinian. During a three-year restoration until 2001, the marble decor of the church, which had meanwhile been painted over, was exposed again.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Palácio de Boa Vista: Recife, PE. In: biblioteca.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Basílica de Nossa Senhora do Carmo on gcatholic.org
- ^ Entries by the ensemble: Belas Artes , Volume 1, No. 218 of October 5, 1938; Histórico . Volume 1, No. 107 of October 5, 1938.
Coordinates: 8 ° 3 ′ 57.7 ″ S , 34 ° 52 ′ 48.2 ″ W.