Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição was a church in

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. Founded in 1583, it was the first

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of Luanda, and was originally made from wooden pillars, plaster and mud, with a thatched roof. In 1653, work began on building a stronger church and it became the

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of the city until 1818, when it was replaced with Nossa Senhora do Carmo By the beginning of 1818, only the tower remained of the former church; the site was transformed in 1881 into the .

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