National Pantheon of the Dominican Republic

The National Pantheon changed into constructed from 1714-1746 by way of the Spaniard Geronimo Quezada y Garçon and became originally a Jesuit church. The structure was built in the neoclassic-renaissance style. Today, the shape stands as a national symbol of the Dominican Republic and serves as the final resting location of the Republic's most honored residents. Jesuits held mass here till 1767. After 1767, it became used as a tobacco warehouse and then as the first Dominican theater for only inventive functions with the aid of the society Amantes de las Letras in 1860 till 1878 whilst it became theater La Republicana which operated till 1917.

It housed governmental offices until 1956. In 1956, Spanish architect Javier Borroso renovated the structure to serve its new motive as a national mausoleum, by order of then dictator Rafael Trujillo. Originally, Trujillo estimated being interred at the National Pantheon, but these days it is the vicinity where the usa's maximum well-known humans are commemorated, among others Trujillo's assassins.