Cathedral of La Paz, Baja California Sur

Church in La Paz, Mexico

Our Lady of Peace Cathedral

Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Paz
Location| La Paz
Country| Mexico
Denomination| Roman Catholic Church
History
Founded| 3 November 1720 (mission)
1865 (cathedral)
Founder(s)| Juan Francisco Escalante y Moreno
Internal view

The Our Lady of Peace Cathedral[1] (Spanish: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Paz)[2] or La Paz Cathedral is a Catholic church in the center of the city of La Paz, Baja California Sur,[3] western Mexico[4] that is the seat of the Diocese of La Paz. It is located where the mission was founded by the Jesuits in the eighteenth century.

The current church was built in the second half of the 19th century, under the orders of Bishop Juan Francisco Escalante y Moreno.

A neoclassical style on the outside, it has a façade and twin towers, as often used since Romanesque architecture[5] throughout the Spanish Empire.[6]

The interior of the temple has beautiful baroque altarpieces from the 18th century, which come from other missions that were abandoned.

## References

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1. ^ Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in La Paz, Baja California Sur
2. ^ Palmerlee, Danny (2007-01-01). Baja California and Los Cabos. Lonely Planet. p. 299. ISBN 9781741045642. "Catedral de La Paz baja california."
3. ^ Burian, Edward (2015-08-15). The Architecture and Cities of Northern Mexico from Independence to the Present. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292771901.
4. ^ Tapia, Carlos Domínguez (1980-01-01). Forjadores de Baja California (in Spanish). s.n.
5. ^ Schaefer, Herwin (1945). "The Origin of the Two-Tower Facade in Romanesque Architecture". The Art Bulletin. 27 (2). JSTOR: 85–108\. doi:10.2307/3046994. ISSN 0004-3079. JSTOR 3046994.
6. ^ Leslie Edith Alejo Guerra (January 2022). Seismic behaviour and strengthening of barrel vaults of Augustinian churches in Mexico (PDF) (Thesis). Universidade do Minho, Escola de Engenharia. p. 30\. "The façade in a colonial church is commonly composed of the main wall, one or two towers and the frontispiece."

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