Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral, Puerto Montt
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| Catedral de la Virgen del Carmen | |
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| Location | Puerto Montt |
| Country |  Chile |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral[1] (Spanish: Catedral de la Virgen del Carmen) Also Puerto Montt Cathedral[2] Is a cathedral church of Catholic worship dedicated to the Virgin Mary under the invocation of Our Lady of the Carmen (Mount Carmel). It is located in the Plaza de Armas of Puerto Montt, and is the seat of the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Puerto Montt in Chile.[3]
When the city of Puerto Montt was drawn by Vicente Pérez Rosales, he managed to have a plot of land in front of the square set aside to build a church, which was blessed as a parish in 1892. With the creation of the Diocese of Puerto Montt in 1939 By Pope Pius XII was elevated to cathedral. It was repaired in 1941 and then in the 1960s due to damage caused by the 1960 earthquake. In 1975 its interior was restored, and its last intervention was in the year 2002.
Its frontis presents four Doric columns that resemble the Parthenon. Its main structure is composed of native woods that form a planar system of beams resting on 12 columns of larch wood.
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- ^ Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Puerto Montt
- ^ Cagnoli, Director Alejandro Luis. Revista Recorriendo la Patagonia Número 49 (in Spanish). Recorriendo la Patagonia.
- ^ Courtois, Juan Benavides; K, Marcela Pizzi; Valenzuela, María Paz (1994-01-01). Ciudades y arquitectura portuaria: los puertos mayores del litoral chileno (in Spanish). Editorial Universitaria. ISBN 9789561110113.
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