Capela Dourada

The Capela Dourada, also called Capela dos Novicos, is a house of prayer of the Franciscan Order situated in the city of Recife, capital of the Pernambuco State, Brazil inside the arrangement of structures of the Convent and Church of Santo Antonio, that incorporates the Church of the Ordem Terceira de Sao Francisco and the Franciscan Museum of Religious Art. The development of the sanctuary was the aftereffect of an activity of the Brothers of the Venerable Third Order of St. Francis of the Chagas, made in Recife in the sixteenth century. Since a considerable lot of its individuals were fortunate, they chose to erect a house of prayer for the Order's amateurs.

Built in a time of extraordinary flourishing in the area, after some time the house of prayer got changes and rich design, and its current condition dates essentially of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years. Its name gets from the immense amount of gold utilized as a part of the covering of the extravagant wood that fills for all intents and purposes every one of the spaces of the dividers, sacrificial tables and roof. Its development and embellishment was gone to by a few critical craftsmen in the locale. The roof with the outer curves, the croisser and the primary house of prayer, and additionally helper furniture, are crafted by Luis Machado, of the seventeenth century. The roof is partitioned into coffins for oil-painted boards with different scenes.