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GPS 38.53725874619049, -28.626566273203373

The Igreja Matriz do Santíssimo Salvador is located in the parish of Matriz, in the city and municipality of Horta, on the island of Faial, in the Azores.

It is bilaterally annexed to the former Jesuit College of Horta, forming the largest architectural façade in the archipelago.

This College Church would become Horta's Main Church on October 30, 1825, replacing the primitive church (from which the Clock Tower is a remnant) due to its advanced state of degradation.

It is classified as a Property of Public Interest by Resolution No. 41/80, of 11 June.

History Its construction was due to the intervention of Father Luís Lopes, the first rector of the Jesuit College of Ponta Delgada who, in 1635, was forced by a storm to dock in Faial, on his way to the island of São Miguel. The fact is narrated in the work of Father António Franco published in 1720, where it is also recorded that the Colégio dos Jesuítas da Horta was built at the expense of Francisco Dutra de Quadros and his wife, Isabel da Silveira.

Church of the Most Holy Savior: main altar. According to Faial historian António Lourenço da Silveira Macedo, this church, under the invocation of São Salvador, began to be built in 1680, two years after obtaining the royal provision that allowed the importation of all the necessary material. The works of the convent would only begin in 1719.

In the context of the expulsion of the Jesuits from the kingdom of Portugal (1759), when these religious left Faial (August 1, 1760) the church was not yet completed. In it were already found, however, the gilded carving of the main altar, the very rich chapel of Senhora da Boa Morte, with its canvases, the tile panels of the main chapel, the large silver lamp, and a consistent part of the remaining chapels, although the lack of several elements is notable.

Also included are the sumptuous collection of rosewood chests in the sacristy, the silvered bronze monstrance and the revolving Cantochão shelf of the 1742 choir, with fine ivory inlays representing Gospel passages from the former Convent of São Francisco, the silver frontal in Renaissance style from the old altar of the Blessed Sacrament, and several other gems, with some of these pieces on display at the Sacred Art Museum of Horta.

Versão portuguesa aqui.

GPS 38.53725874619049, -28.626566273203373

The Igreja Matriz do Santíssimo Salvador is located in the parish of Matriz, in the city and municipality of Horta, on the island of Faial, in the Azores.

It is bilaterally annexed to the former Jesuit College of Horta, forming the largest architectural façade in the archipelago.

This College Church would become Horta's Main Church on October 30, 1825, replacing the primitive church (from which the Clock Tower is a remnant) due to its advanced state of degradation.

It is classified as a Property of Public Interest by Resolution No. 41/80, of 11 June.

History Its construction was due to the intervention of Father Luís Lopes, the first rector of the Jesuit College of Ponta Delgada who, in 1635, was forced by a storm to dock in Faial, on his way to the island of São Miguel. The fact is narrated in the work of Father António Franco published in 1720, where it is also recorded that the Colégio dos Jesuítas da Horta was built at the expense of Francisco Dutra de Quadros and his wife, Isabel da Silveira.

Church of the Most Holy Savior: main altar. According to Faial historian António Lourenço da Silveira Macedo, this church, under the invocation of São Salvador, began to be built in 1680, two years after obtaining the royal provision that allowed the importation of all the necessary material. The works of the convent would only begin in 1719.

In the context of the expulsion of the Jesuits from the kingdom of Portugal (1759), when these religious left Faial (August 1, 1760) the church was not yet completed. In it were already found, however, the gilded carving of the main altar, the very rich chapel of Senhora da Boa Morte, with its canvases, the tile panels of the main chapel, the large silver lamp, and a consistent part of the remaining chapels, although the lack of several elements is notable.

Also included are the sumptuous collection of rosewood chests in the sacristy, the silvered bronze monstrance and the revolving Cantochão shelf of the 1742 choir, with fine ivory inlays representing Gospel passages from the former Convent of São Francisco, the silver frontal in Renaissance style from the old altar of the Blessed Sacrament, and several other gems, with some of these pieces on display at the Sacred Art Museum of Horta.