Cuzco No. 2 / Cusco / Qosqo / Qusqu
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view of church exterior - west façade
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19995CUZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1536-1538?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Gothic? / Renaisssance?
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia del Triunfo / El Triunfo [original Iglesia del Sagrario / Iglesia Matriz / cathedral church of Cuzco]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): [original advocation: The Assumption of St. Mary]
Church Notes: bult 1536-1538 on the site of Suntur Wasi, an Inca ceremonial building; first Christian church built in Cuzco and its first cathedral; after the new cathedral was built El Triunfo became its auxiliary chapel
Church Address: Triunfo 373, Cusco 08002, Peru
Site Location: Cusco, Cusco, Peru, South America
Directions to Site: Located off road 3S [Av. de la Cultura], about 1,100 km SE of Lima. This church is located in the city centre, near the cathedral
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiócesis del Cusco
Additional Comments: moved font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Harvey & Harvey (2014) report a large stone font in the baptistery of the restored church: "una gran pila bautismal toda de piedra. Esta se encontraba primigeniamente en la Catedral" [NB: the reference does not help in the identification and dating of this font, as El Triunfo was the original 'cathedral church' of Cuzco, and the later cathedral, the new one, took almost a century to build]. The same source reports the damage caused by the 1650 earthquake but does not mention mention whether the original (?) font survived or not.
COORDINATES
UTM: 19L 177671 8503789
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): -13.516476, -71.97746
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 13° 30′ 59.32″ S, 71° 58′ 38.86″ W
REFERENCES
- Harvey Valencia, Armando, Trilogía divinaL la Basílica Catedral del Cuzco, La Iglesia de la Sagrada Familia y El Triunfo, antología, Cusco: Editorial Universitaria de la Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, 2014