The Sagrario Cathedral (in Spanish: ''Catedral El Sagrario''), also known as Rancagua Cathedral, is a

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located in

Rancagua Rancagua () is a city and commune in central Chile and part of the Rancagua conurbation. It is the capital of the Cachapoal Province and of the O'Higgins Region, located south of the national capital of Santiago. It was originally named Sant ...

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. It has been declared historic preservation building (in Spanish: ''Inmueble de Conservación Histórica''). The first temple was built in 1550, by the initiative of the Bishop of Santiago de Chile,

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. It was damaged by the

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in 1814. The current cathedral was designed by French architect Juan Herbage in 1861, and it was finished in 1876. The temple was damaged in the

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, and it was closed for reparations until April 21, 2011.

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External links

{{commonscat, Catedral de Rancagua
Official web site
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Chile Rancagua