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The Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral ( es, Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro) Also El Vigia Cathedral is a Catholic church located in
El Vigia The Alberto Adriani Municipality () (better known as El Vigia) is one of the 23 municipalities () that makes up the Venezuelan state of Mérida and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the ...
, Mérida state, Venezuela. Is located on Bolivar Avenue to 15th Avenue, opposite the Bolívar Square of El Vigia.


History

On 14 April 1957 the archbishop of Mérida, Acacio Chacín, laid the first stone. On May 21 of that same year construction he began. The layout was made by José Ignacio Olivares, priest of El Vigia. On 12 March 1959 the parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help was founded. In 1994 the Roman Catholic Diocese of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia was erected. The cathedral building is concrete, decorated on the outside with granite. The bell tower brick has tablets. The cathedral has a large entrance and two small entrances on the facade. There are also two side entrances. The ships are separated by 36 columns. It has 30 windows and 48 small windows.


See also

* Roman Catholicism in Venezuela * Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cathedral


References

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