Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Comayagua

The Immaculate Conception Cathedral [1] (Spanish: Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción) also called Comayagua Cathedral[2][3] It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and is located in the Central Square of the city of Comayagua in Honduras,[4] it is one of the oldest cathedrals in Central America, built from 1634 and inaugurated on December 8, 1711 and blessed in 1715.

Immaculate Conception Cathedral
Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción
LocationComayagua
Country Honduras
DenominationRoman Catholic Church
Architecture
StyleBaroque
Years built1685-1715

The cathedral was initiated by the then Bishop of Comayagua Alonso Vargas y Abarca, continued by Bishop Fray Juan Pérez Carpintero and completed by Bishop Fray Antonio López de Guadalupe, most of the construction work took place between 1685 and 1715 when it was solemnly blessed.

Architecture

Inside
Gold-plated altarpiece by Francisco de ocampo

It consists of a Latin cross plan with three naves with a barrel vault, with five sections, the presbytery is covered with three hemispherical domes. It has an annex where the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament is located. On the main altar you can see a gilded wooden altarpiece, with a carving of the image of the Immaculate Conception made in 1620 by Francisco de Ocampo and donated to the city by King Felipe III of Spain. The eight images that are distributed in the temple were donated by Felipe VI of Spain as well as the crucified one donated in 1620 and made by the Jaén sculptor Andrés Ocampo.




Outside
Another View

Outside, the façade has a Renaissance style and is made in the form of an altarpiece with three streets, the central one wider where the semicircular arch entrance door is located. The streets are divided vertically by attached columns and horizontally by cornices forming four floors. Inside some niches of this facade, there are the images of four doctors of the Church in the side streets and in the central one, on the third floor, there are the statues of the Virgin Mary and on their sides Saint John the Baptist and Saint Joseph, finally on the fourth floor is the figure of Christ blessing. The four-story bell tower stands out on the left side of this main façade, the last one is where the eight bells that it has are placed, later in its construction to the façade, this bell tower is finished off with a glazed colored ceramic dome.




See also

References
  1. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Comayagua
  2. Arellano, Fernando (1988-01-01). El arte hispanoamericano (in Spanish). Universidad Catolica Andres. ISBN 9789802440177.
  3. Oyuela, Leticia de (1997-01-01). Dos siglos de amor: 26 historia de amor documentadas de la sociedad hondureña de los siglos XVIII y XIX (in Spanish). Editorial Guaymuras.
  4. Hernández, Bernabé Fernández (1997-01-01). El gobierno del Intendente Anguiano en Honduras, 1796-1812 (in Spanish). Universidad de Sevilla. ISBN 9788447203680.

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