Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes

The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes (Spanish: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the neighbourhood of Malvín, Montevideo, Uruguay.[1][2]

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes
(Malvín)
Religion
AffiliationRoman Catholic
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusParish church
Location
LocationMichigan 1645
Montevideo,  Uruguay
Architecture
TypeChurch

The parish was established on 4 February 1934 by Archbishop Juan Francisco Aragone.[1] The temple is dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.[2]

There was a project in the 1960s to build a bigger, modern church in this place. Eladio Dieste designed the reinforced ceramic building, but only the apse was built. Curiously, the project was built instead in Spain: the parish church of San Juan de Ávila, Alcalá de Henares.[1][3]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "History of the Parish of Malvín". Retrieved 11 May 2013. (in Spanish)
  2. ^ a b "Parroquia de Malvín". Archdiocese of Montevideo. Retrieved 11 May 2013. (in Spanish)
  3. ^ The church that should have been built in Malvín (in Spanish)

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