Igreja Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Diamantina, Brazil


Igreja Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Diamantina, Brazil

This beautiful and opulent church was built between 1760 and 1765 and contains a large organ with gold plated pipes. It is supposedly the only baroque church in Brazil with a bell tower at its backside. According to the legend, this was done to make sure that Chica da Silva – a mistress and former slave of diamond contractor João Fernandes de Oliveira who financed the construction – would not awake by the tolling of the bells.

Photo taken in March 2007
Participants: rmp and skp

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