New Cathedral of Cuenca

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception usually alluded to as the New Cathedral of Cuenca is the house of God church in Cuenca, Ecuador. It is arranged before Parque Calderon. The plan of the Cathedral was drawn up by Juan Bautista Stiehle 1829-1899 a German-conceived monk who touched base in Cuenca from Alsace in 1873 on proposals made by Bishop Leon Garrido.

The Cathedral assumed control over the capacity of the close-by Old Cathedral that had turned out to be too little. Development works began in 1885 and went on for just about a century. This building joins numerous engineering styles, yet Romanesque Revival is transcendent. The church is surmounted by three mammoth vaults secured by striking blue and white coated tile from Czechoslovakia. Its recolored glass windows were made by Spanish craftsman Guillermo Larrazabal. Its towers are truncated because of a figuring blunder of the planner.

On the off chance that they had been raised to their arranged stature, the establishment of this Church to the Immaculate Conception, would not have possessed the capacity to hold up under the weight. Regardless of the planner's tremendous slip-up, the horizon of its vaults has turned into an image for the city. Its veneer is made of alabaster and neighborhood marble, while the floor is secured with pink marble, brought from Carrara. At the point when the Cathedral was first built 9,000 out of Cuenca's 10,000 occupants could fit in the building.