Church of San Agustín (Quito)
- Church of San Agustín (Quito)
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The Church of San Agustín is a church located in Quito, Ecuador.
It is one of the seven monumental churches of the 16th and 17th centuries whose main portico was built on stone in the Spanish Baroque-architecture style.
The church includes a small atrium (decorated by a large stone cross), an inside yard with a large garden and a large session hall where the instrument of capitulation of the Spanish Army in Quito was signed on May 25, 1822, after the Battle of Pichincha. The document is known as the Capitulacion de Quito and contains paragraphs that witness the magnanimity of General Jose de Sucre.
The cloister and convent have a separate entrance which leads to the garden. The bell tower reaches a high of twenty-two meters (seventy feet) and houses two bronze bells of the period.
See also
Categories:
- 16th-century church buildings
- 17th-century church buildings
- Baroque churches
- Churches in Quito
- Spanish Baroque architecture
- Church stubs
- Ecuador stubs
- South American building and structure stubs
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