St. Ignatius Cathedral, San Ignacio de Velasco

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St. Ignatius Cathedral
Catedral de San Ignacio
St. Ignatius Cathedral
LocationSan Ignacio de Velasco
Country Bolivia
DenominationRoman Catholic Church
Architecture
Architectural typechurch
Interior view

The St. Ignatius Cathedral[1] (Spanish: Catedral de San Ignacio), also known as San Ignacio de Velasco Cathedral, is the name of a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church that is in the city of San Ignacio de Velasco, the capital of the province of Velasco in the department of Santa Cruz, which is in the east of the South American country of Bolivia.[2]

The temple that follows the Roman or Latin rite began to be constructed in 1748 with the impulse of the Jesuit missionaries and was finished in 1761.[3] It suffered by a fire in 1948 but was rebuilt between 1998 and 2001.[4]

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