Central American Catholic Aesthetics

Dedicated to showcasing the beauty of Central American Catholic heritage. A visual journey through 🇬🇹🇸🇻🇭🇳🇳🇮🇨🇷🇵🇦

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Costa Rican President Laura Fernández, a Catholic, entrusts her government to God and to the Virgin Mary.

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San Andrés Xecul church, Guatemala 🇬🇹

Built in the late 17th century by the indigenous k'iche' people, who added more than 200 different ornaments and painted the facade with a colorful palette, showcasing the mix of spanish colonial and maya cultures.

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Santuario Nacional del Corazón de María, Panamá 🇵🇦

Built in the late 1940s by missionaries from the Claretian congregation, dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Virgin Mary and intended as an oasis for evangelization in the city.

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Pontificia Universidad San Carlos de Borromeo, Guatemala 🇬🇹

Founded in Antigua in 1676, it was the first university in Central America. It remained under direction of the Church until 1875, when liberal governments took it and turned it into the disfunctional mess it is today.

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Iglesia San Manuel de Colohete, Honduras 🇭🇳

Located in the middle of the forest in Celaque National Park. It was built in the late 1600s and early 1700s. This beautiful church shows a contrast between the heavy stone facade and its interior wooden structure.

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Iglesia de San José, Panamá 🇵🇦

While a discreet facade can be seen from the outside, the interior of this church is truly breathtaking. Its gold leaf altar, dating to the early 1700s, was saved from pirates by friars who covered it in mud to fool them.

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Parroquia de la Purísima Concepción, Guatemala 🇬🇹

The town of Ciudad Vieja was, for a short time, the capital of Guatemala. Built in 1531, it has one of the most intricate, unique facades among Guatemala's churches, housing images of the archangels Raphael, Gabriel, and Michael.

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The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Remedies.

San Pedro Cholula, Puebla 🇲🇽

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@Alexandre24071 Alguna vez has escuchado de algo llamado la Santísima Trinidad? Pareciera que no.

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Parroquia San Benito, El Salvador 🇸🇻

While many of our more conservative brothers don't usually love modernist design, the Catholic Church has historically championed new artists: some of the finest 20th century modernist buildings are churches and chapels, such as this one.

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Parroquia y Convento de La Merced (2) Guatemala 🇬🇹

Earthquakes forced the city to relocate and rebuild several times. After the 1773 tragedy, the city and its churches moved to their current location. This is the "newer", 1813 La Merced, in Guatemala City's historic center.

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Iglesia y Convento de La Merced, Guatemala 🇬🇹

Built just 6 years before the 1773 earthquake that moved Guatemala's capital to its current location, La Merced is one of Latin America's most beautiful churches. Los Pescados fountain is one of the world's largest baroque fountains.

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@DeJadezafiro No es renacentista per se, pero tiene ciertos elementos de ese estilo, debido a que su primera fase empieza en 1563 por lo que estos elementos se observan principalmente en su estructura y distribución. Su fachada ciertamente contiene más elementos barrocos.

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Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción, Honduras 🇭🇳

Built in three different stages between 1563 and 1711, the Cathedral of Comayagua is one of the most beautiful churches in the central american isthmus due to its mix of renaissance, baroque and neoclassical styles.

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Iglesia y Convento de La Merced, Guatemala 🇬🇹

Built just 6 years before the 1773 earthquake that moved Guatemala's capital to its current location, La Merced is one of Latin America's most beautiful churches. Los Pescados fountain is one of the world's largest baroque fountains.

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@sergileonardo23 Comayagua!

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Convento de San Francisco, Nicaragua 🇳🇮

Founded in 1529 as the first church and convent of the city of Granada. It survived fires, pirate attacks and was even used as a fortress by filibuster William Walker in the 1800s, after which it was turned into a school and then a museum.

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@marito_gil That's Juan José de Jesús Yas and his wife María Noriega!

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Yasu Kohei (1844-1917) was a japanese photographer who settled in Guatemala in the late 19th century, embracing catholicism, baptized Juan José de Jesús Yas. His work captures the beauty and mystery of Antigua Guatemala and its catholic tradition before the 1917 earthquakes 🇬🇹

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🇬🇹 José de Jesús Yas took several portraits from clerics, including Ricardo Casanova y Estrada (in the first image), Archbishop of Guatemala from 1886 to 1913, who for years endured the oppression of liberal governments and was therefore exiled for 9 years from the country.

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Yasu Kohei (1844-1917) was a japanese photographer who settled in Guatemala in the late 19th century, embracing catholicism, baptized Juan José de Jesús Yas. His work captures the beauty and mystery of Antigua Guatemala and its catholic tradition before the 1917 earthquakes 🇬🇹

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@SamuelGalindo14 @KalienlaDisco Posiblemente, habría que preguntarles. Tengo entendido que su sobrino del lado de su esposa (apellido Noriega) fue quien heredó el estudio de fotografía.

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Iglesia Nuestra Señora de las Angustias, Guatemala 🇬🇹

During the 1902 Santa María volcano eruption, wealthy businessman Felipe Yurrita promised Our Lady of Sorrows he would build a temple in her honor if his family survived. That vow became the iconic Iglesia Yurrita.