Iglesia de la Recoleta (Peru)
{{short description|Catholic church in Cuzco, Peru}}
{{For|the church in Lima|Iglesia de la Recoleta (Lima)}}
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The Iglesia de la Recoleta is a Catholic church in Cuzco, Peru.
Since 1972 the property is part of the Monumental Zone of Cuzco, which was declared a Historical Monument of Peru.{{Cite book |title=Relación de Monumentos Históricos del Perú |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Cultura |year=1999 |location=Lima |pages=37 |language=es |url=https://repositorio.cultura.gob.pe/bitstream/handle/CULTURA/77/relacion%20de%20monumentos%20historicos.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}} Likewise, in 1983, being part of the historic centre of the city, it is part of the central area declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.{{Cite web |url=http://whc.unesco.org/es/list/273 |title=Ciudad del Cusco |website=UNESCO}}
History
Construction began on the church in 1559, founded by Father Francisco de Velasco at the expense of the neighbor Toribio de Bustamante. The church was completed in 1601.{{sfn|Angles Vargas|1983|page=502}} Next to the church a convent was built consisting of a small cloister, high and low, with a brick archway on stone columns where the religious lived.{{sfn|Angles Vargas|1983|page=503}}
The {{ill|1650 Cuzco earthquake|es|Terremoto del Cusco de 1650|lt=1650 earthquake}} seriously affected the temple. For this reason, on February 3, 1688, Nicolás Huallpa, a native of Oropesa, hired {{ill|Juan Tomás Tuyro Túpac|es}} to make 360 ashlars for the reconstruction of the temple tower.{{sfn|Angles Vargas|1983|page=504}} By contrast, the {{ill|1950 Cuzco earthquake|es|Terremoto del Cusco de 1950|lt=1950 earthquake}} caused little damage to the building.{{sfn|Kubler|1953|page=29}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{Cite book |title=Historia del Cusco (Cusco Colonial) |last=Angles Vargas |first=Víctor |publisher=Industrialgrafica S.A. |year=1983 |location=Lima |language=es |volume=2 |author-link=Víctor Angles Vargas}}
- {{Cite book |title=Cuzco: reconstrucción de la ciudad y restauración de sus monumentos |last=Kubler |first=George |publisher=UNESCO |year=1953 |language=es |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000001212_spa}}
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