Cine Trocadero

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The former Trocadero cinema

The Cine Trocadero is an event building originally used as a cinema and later as a church in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo .

movie theater

Architect Rafael Ruano was responsible for the building erected in 1941 in Barrio Centro on Avenida 18 de Julio , corner of Yaguarón . From the opening on January 16, 1941, at which the Chaplin film The Great Dictator was shown, until July 2001 the cinema of the same name with 1,241 seats was located here, which had to close for financial reasons. The company's 60-year history ended with the final performance of the Disney production Atlantis .

church

Since 2001, the Cine Trocadero has housed an offshoot of the Brazilian Pentecostal Church Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (Iglesia Universal del Reino de Dios, IURD). The IURD, which was set up as a commercial enterprise by Edir Macedo, invested a total of 4 million US dollars in the purchase of the property together with the Deus é Amor sect , which has connections to organized crime in Brazil, and made high investments elsewhere, which led to the suspicion of money laundering woke up. As a result of the purchase, the money laundering laws in Uruguay are to be tightened.

At the turn of the year 2009/2010 a change of ownership took place and it was speculated that the use as a church could be terminated. However, this does not appear to have been implemented by 2011.

literature

  • Guía Arquitectónica y Urbanística de Montevideo. 3. Edition. Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo et al., Montevideo et al. 2008, ISBN 978-9974-600-26-3 , p. 72.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CERRO SUS PUERTAS EL CINE TROCADERO - El fin de la matiné (Spanish) in La República on July 24, 2001, accessed on July 1, 2012
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. El Pais , Uruguay, accessed January 21, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elpais.com.uy
  3. ↑ Cine Trocadero - Avenida 18 de Julio, Montevideo
  4. ↑ Edificio del cine Trocadero dejaría de ser iglesia - Que Dios se lo pague (Spanish) on www.montevideo.com.uy of December 22, 2009, accessed on July 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Que Pasa - Iglesia Universal se va del ex Trocadero  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) in El País, January 30, 2010, accessed July 1, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.elpais.com.uy  
  6. ^ Former Cine Trocadero, Montevideo, October 17, 2011, accessed July 1, 2012

Coordinates: 34 ° 54 ′ 19.3 "  S , 56 ° 11 ′ 16.2"  W.