Basilica of Our Lady of Solitude

The Basilica of Our Lady of Solitude is a Roman Catholic Basilica located in Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico. It was built among 1682 and 1690, and is a sanctuary devoted to Our Lady of Solitude, consumer saint of Oaxaca. The structure style is Baroque, and turned into deliberately built with low spires and towers, as to higher withstand earthquakes. The Basilica de l. A. Soledad is part of the Historic Center of Oaxaca City, which turned into d World Heritage Site via UNESCO in 1987. The production of the Basilica commenced in 1682 and in 1690 become consecrated by using Bishop Sarinana y Cuenca.

It become designed by means of Father Fernando Mendez and the modern-day facade changed into constructed among 1717 and 1718, with the assistance of Bishop Angel Maldonado. The Basilica of La Soledad is laid out within the shape of a Latin go. The constructing was made from inexperienced cantera, a stone not unusual in parts of Oaxaca. The west gallery carries a baroque pipe organ dated 1686, restored to playing circumstance in 2000.