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Heritage Churches of Olinda

In this (ongoing) project I intend to use photographies as a historical register of Olinda's most significant traces: it's buildings. Those churches are inside or nearby the Historic Site delimited by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage in 1982. 

They are, ordered by their very first construction date: 
- Sé Cathedral / São Salvador do Mundo's Church (1537);
- Nossa Senhora da Misericórdia's / Nossa Senhora da Luz's Church (1540);
- São João Batista dos Militares' Church (1550).
- Nossa Senhora das Neves' Church / São Francisco's Convent (1577)
- Nossa Senhora do Carmo's Church (1580);
- São Bento's Church and Monastery (1582); 
- Nossa Senhora da Conceição's Church and Convent (1585);
- Nossa Senhora do Amparo's Church (1613);
- Nossa Senhora de Guadalupe's Church (1626);
- Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos' Church (1655);
- Nossa Senhora do Desterro's Church / Santa Tereza's Convent (1660);
- São Sebastião's Church (1686);
- Nosso Senhor do Bonfim's Church (no official data/1600s);
- São Pedro Apóstolo's Church (1711);
- Nossa Senhora da Boa Hora's Curch (1807);
- Nossa Senhora dos Milagres' Church (1862);




There are two other churches missing, which I haven't had the opportunity to photograph yet: 
- Nossa Senhora do Monte's Church (1537) ;
- Nossa Senhora da Graça's Church (1552).

Those are going to be included as soon as I get the shot. 
Heritage Churches of Olinda
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