Work on this cathedral started around 1535, and during the long construction the nearby church of San Juan de Dios stood in as the temporary cathedral until the diocesan seat moved to the present building in 1640. Earthquakes struck again and again through the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, each time compelling another rebuilding. The structure seen today took shape in a campaign that ran from 1702 to 1733 and was consecrated on 12 July 1733. When the 1931 earthquake brought down the towers, they too were rebuilt. Within the church a Baroque pipe organ survives, made locally with parts from 1711 and 1712 and restored in 1997.
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Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Oaxaca de Juárez
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption is the metropolitan cathedral of the Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca, in the city of Oaxaca de Juárez. Carved from the region's green cantera stone, it joins a Baroque façade to a Neoclassical interior and serves as the seat of the archbishop.
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Contact
- Phone
- +529515164401
About
- Patron
- Our Lady of the Assumption
- Feast day
- August 15
- Rite
- Roman Catholic
- Established
- 1535
History
Location
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