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Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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Location Aguada, Montevideo
Country Uruguay
Denomination Roman Catholic
History
Founded 1861
Dedication Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Consecrated 1866
Architecture
Functional status Parish
Architectural type Neoclassical architecture
Years built 1890

The Church of Our Lady of the Mount Carmel (Spanish: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen), popularly known as Iglesia de la Aguada, is a Roman Catholic parish church in Montevideo, Uruguay.

History

Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen - Aguada - Montevideo

Originally there was a small church where, in 1829, the First Constituent Assembly was summoned.

The current temple it was created in 1861 and built in 1890 , in a neoclassical style with two bell towers on its main façade. It was declared a parish on September 8, 1866 by the bishop of Montevideo Jacinto Vera .

The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a very popular devotion of the Virgin Mary.

In the 1930s, as a result of the construction of the Diagonal Agraciada, its neoclassical façade had to be demolished and rebuilt in 1935 by the architects Elzeario Boix y Horacio Terra.

Same devotion

There are other churches in Uruguay dedicated to Our Lady of the Mount Carmel:

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Basílica Nuestra Señora del Carmen para niños

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