São Francisco Church and Convent of Salvador

São Francisco Church and Convent of Salvador - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The São Francisco Church and Convent of Salvador () is located in the historical centre of Salvador, in the State of Bahia, Brazil. The ornate Church of the Third Order of Saint Francis sits adjacent to the convent. The friars of the Franciscan Order arrived in Salvador in 1587 and constructed a convent and church on the site. This structure was destroyed by the Dutch during the Dutch invasions of Bahia in the next century; Father Vicente das Chagas initiated the current structure in 1686, which was completed in the 18th century. The Franciscan church and convent have the largest number of azulejos, 55,000, of any church in Latin America. Read more on Wikipedia

type: religious building
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