Basilica Nossa Senhora de Penha

The Nossa Senhora de Penha or Basilica da Penha is a Roman Catholic religious basilica situated in the city of Recife, in the province of Pernambuco, in Brazil. Has a place with the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, in the archdiocese of Olinda and Recife. Its supporter is the Virgin of the Rock. The root of the area of the Basílica da Penha goes back to a little rhetoric situated in "Outside Porta de Santo Antônio", comparing, with a slight contrast, to the territory where today the contemporary building is raised. The speech was established in 1655 by the French Capuchin Franciscans and developed April 16 of that year, in a plot gave by Belchior Alves Camello and his significant other Joanna Bezerra.

The Baroque style utilized as a part of the majority of Recife's holy places, the Basilica da Penha is of Renaissance Revival engineering and a design work of huge creative set both inside and outside. The greater part of the works don't have documentation that demonstrates initiation due, leaving a hole in the recorded review of the building. Among the few bits of surely understood initiation we find, in the altarpiece, the figures of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Anthony cut in marble in help with creation by Italian Valentino Panciera Besarel and low alleviation on the high holy place.