Iglesia de la Recoleta (Peru)

For the church in Lima, see Iglesia de la Recoleta (Lima).

Iglesia de la Recoleta
Religion
Affiliation	Catholic
Location
Location	Cuzco, Peru
Architecture
Groundbreaking	1559
Completed	1601

The Iglesia de la Recoleta is a Catholic church in Cuzco, Peru.

Since 1972 the property is part of the Monumental Zone of Cuzco, which was declared a Historical Monument of Peru.^[1] Likewise, in 1983, being part of the historic centre of the city, it is part of the central area declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.^[2]

History

Construction began on the church in 1559, founded by Father Francisco de Velasco at the expense of the neighbor Toribio de Bustamante. The church was completed in 1601.^[3] Next to the church a convent was built consisting of a small cloister, high and low, with a brick archway on stone columns where the religious lived.^[4]

The 1650 earthquake [es] seriously affected the temple. For this reason, on February 3, 1688, Nicolás Huallpa, a native of Oropesa, hired Juan Tomás Tuyro Túpac [es] to make 360 ashlars for the reconstruction of the temple tower.^[5] By contrast, the 1950 earthquake [es] caused little damage to the building.^[6]

References

1. Relación de Monumentos Históricos del Perú (PDF) (in Spanish). Lima: Instituto Nacional de Cultura. 1999. p. 37.
2. "Ciudad del Cusco". UNESCO.
3. Angles Vargas 1983, p. 502.
4. Angles Vargas 1983, p. 503.
5. Angles Vargas 1983, p. 504.
6. Kubler 1953, p. 29.

Bibliography

• Angles Vargas, Víctor (1983). Historia del Cusco (Cusco Colonial) (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Lima: Industrialgrafica S.A.
• Kubler, George (1953). Cuzco: reconstrucción de la ciudad y restauración de sus monumentos (in Spanish). UNESCO.

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