Cuzco No. 2 / Cusco / Qosqo / Qusqu
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view of church exterior - west façade
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19995CUZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia del Triunfo / El Triunfo [original Iglesia del Sagrario / Iglesia Matriz / cathedral church of Cuzco]
Church Patron Saints: [original advocation: The Assumption of St. Mary]
Country Name: Peru
Location: Cusco, Cusco
Directions to Site: Located to the side of the Catedral de Cuzco
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiócesis del Cusco
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1536-1538?
Century and Period: 16th century, Gothic? / Renaisssance?
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
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.
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