Santiago Apostol Parish Ruins
About Santiago Apostol Parish Ruins
Santiago Apostol Parish Ruins is a Costa Rican Cultural Heritage Site, located inside the town of Cartago, Costa Rica. Several church buildings have existed on this web page when you consider that 1575. The first constructing changed into damaged in 1630 through an earthquake and became demolished in 1656, when a new one started out to be constructed, which become finished and consecrated in 1662.
This second shape had chapels, one used for praying and the other one for funerals, and each was safeguarded by the local townspeople. In 1718 the then antique and deteriorated church became heavily damaged by some other earthquake, leading to maintenance. In 1756 some other earthquake broke the church, forcing further maintenance. It became ultimately destroyed on September 2, 1841, by using the San Antolín earthquake. In 1870 the ultimate try to rebuild the church changed into started out. The new parish turned into built and designed by way of engineer Luis Llach and German architect Francisco Kurtz, respectively, and had a Romanesque style, the most effective one found in Costa Rica. Its creation was halted for thirty years and changed into restarted once more in 1903 or 1904, before being absolutely canceled in 1910, after the Santa Mónica earthquake.
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