General Information
| Name in local language: | Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá |
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| Beginning of works: | 1686 |
| Completion: | 1858 |
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Basilica |
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| Architectural style: |
Neoclassical |
| Material: |
Masonry structure |
Location
| Location: |
Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela |
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| Address: | Av. 12 con calle 96, final Paseo |
| Coordinates: | 10° 38' 34.73" N 71° 36' 56.89" W |
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
La Chiquinquirá Church (Spanish: Virgen de La Chiquinquirá) is a church in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The feast day of the church is November 18. Annually on this day many thousands of people gather around the church. It is a colonial church that was built between 1686 and completed in 1858.
The basilica enshrines a colonial image made in 1709, colonial replica of the famed earliest painting of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá in which this church is dedicated to. Pope Benedict XV authorized the canonical coronation of the image by decree granted to the Bishop of Zulia, Arturo Celestino Álvarez on 16 July 1917. The coronation ceremony would not be carried out until 18 November 1942, 25 years after its approval.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá, Maracaibo" and modified on December 7, 2023 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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20033455 - Published on:
28/11/2007 - Last updated on:
03/12/2023
