Buenos Aires Church Pictures Church Photos and Information from Buenos Aires
OUR LADY'S JOURNEY'S CHURCH
Another nice small red-brick Neo-Romanesque church just one block from the railways and within walking distance from Miserere Station.
Its four-tier layered tower bears a strong resemblance to St Mary's in Almagro and so does much of the rest, like a darker scale model of Massa's lovely church for it is located between two two-storey houses and the church is only bathed in the sunlight that comes through the small clerestory windows at daytime. Also distinctive is the fine white and pink marble pulpit on the south-east corner of the nave as opposed to ''pu...
BASILICA OF OUR LADY OF BUENOS AIRES
On September 9th 1893, Mrs Celina Bustamante de Beláustegui donated a large site in Caballito, Buenos Aires to the Mercedarians to build a school and a church. Fifty years before, the order had been deprived of their Basilica-Our Lady of Mercy-and monastery-St Raymond-in the City by a confiscatory decree issued by President Rivadavia which also forced them to dissolve the order and join the secular clergy or else emigrate to the provinces. Homeless and poverty-stricken, the friars moved to the then still rural area where they had to walk ...
