Old Cathedral of Cuenca

The Church of the Shrine normally called the Old Cathedral of Cuenca was the main location of Spanish worship at some stage in the time of Spanish colonization in Cuenca, Ecuador. It capabilities nowadays because the Museum for Religious Art and is positioned on the Parque Calderon, opposite the New Cathedral. Planning for the church started out in 1557 and construction started out ten years later, the use of stones for the muse and walls from the ruins of Tomebamba.

During the colonial duration the church turned into the main center of worship for the "Parish of the Spaniards"; it changed into reserved for the humans from Spain, at the same time as indigenous people needed to stay out of doors or worship elsewhere. The organ become delivered in 1739, and the clock become set in the tower in 1751. In 1787 the bishopric turned into installed in Cuenca, and the church have become a cathedral. The new tower erected in 1868 contains a memorial plate: Torre mas celebre que las pirámides de Egipto in connection with the use of the old tower as a key reference point for the French Geodesic Mission in 1736, which decided the arc of the meridian. In 1880 creation for the New Cathedral was begun.