Parish Nuestra Señora de Balvanera is a Catholic church located in the district of

Balvanera Balvanera is a Barrios of Buenos Aires, barrio or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Origin of name and alternative names The official name, Balvanera, is the name of the ''parroquia'' (parish) centered around the church of ''Nuestra Seño ...

in the autonomous city of

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

, Argentina.

History

The parish of Balvanera was established in 1833 during the government of

Juan Manuel de Rosas Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rozas y López de Osornio (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confedera ...

. The first priest was Mariano Medrano Cabrera and he performed the first baptism, of Pedro José Crespo, on May 16, 1833. The first registered marriage was on July 2 of that same year, between Justo Avalos, born in

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, and Feliciana Leyva, from the town of San Isidro. Antonino Canaveri and Lucrecia Calderón acted as witnesses. Around 1839, Rosas entrusted the architect José Santos Sartorio with the construction of a new church, which was completed in 1842. Antonio Picarel was in charge of increasing the height of the building's

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. The current facade of the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Balvanera was completed in 1930.

Gallery

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References

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