Saint Ignatius' Church ( es, Iglesia de San Ignacio) is a Roman Catholic church situated at the
Illuminated Block, in
Buenos Aires
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's neighbourhood of
Montserrat
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. The first building, which was made of adobe, was built by the
Society of Jesus
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in 1675. The southern tower and the present facade were built in 1686, and the rest of the Church construction started in 1712. Today's church was completed in 1722 and consecrated in 1734.
Saint Ignatius is the oldest church preserved in Buenos Aires, and was declared a
National Historic Monument in 1942. On June 16, 1955, during a government campaign against the Church, after a failed revolution against
Juan Domingo Perón
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government,
Peronist
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mobs burnt most churches of Buenos Aires, including Saint Ignatius.
Gallery
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File:Templo de San Ignacio - Buenos Aires.jpg,
File:Torre con reloj en la primera Iglesia de Buenos Aires.JPG,
File:San Ignacio 01.JPG,
File:San Ignacio 02.JPG,
File:San Ignacio 03.JPG,
File:San Ignacio 04.JPG,
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See also
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List of Jesuit sites
This list includes past and present buildings, facilities and institutions associated with the Society of Jesus. In each country, sites are listed in chronological order of start of Jesuit association.
Nearly all these sites have bee ...
References
External links
San Ignacio de Loyola
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Roman Catholic churches in Buenos Aires
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1722
18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Argentina
1722 establishments in the Spanish Empire
Baroque church buildings in Argentina