Nuestra Señora de Lourdes, Malvín, Montevideo

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Lourdes
(Malvín)
Basic information
Location Michigan 1645
Montevideo,  Uruguay
Affiliation Roman Catholic
Ecclesiastical or organizational status Parish church
Architectural type Church

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]

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

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

Coordinates: 34°53′44″S 56°05′59″W / 34.8956°S 56.0997°W / -34.8956; -56.0997

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