Señor de Burgos Church, Amazonas

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In the quarter of La Laguna, Small square of Independencia, Amazonas region, Peru is the Señor de Burgos Church, temple that he has sheltered to the image of this important Christian dedication, with big quantity of devout in Chachapoyas and the whole Peru.

To the Señor de Burgos of Chachapoyas they assume a sinnúmero of miracles and thank you received, another motive of the big fondness that the people feel towards him.

The church, íntegramente constructed in adobe, was built about the XVIIth century and since then it has been a center of worship and permanent veneration to the Señor de Burgos. Surely for centuries, this church has supported the embates of the nature in successive earthquakes, as the registered ones in 1929 and 1970, events that have determined the changes in his frontage.

On September 25, 2005, on having divided equally them 8:50 of the night, an earthquake of 7.5 grades struck hardly the North of Peru, Chachapoyas, being much next to the epicentre, suffered also serious consequences. One of the infrastructures most affected by the earthquake is the Señor de Burgos Church to such a point that has been closed to the worship, something that had never happened with the temple in his history. The traditional Thursdays visits and the celebration of the Sunday Eucharist stayed suspended.

The cracks and detachments, they show the calamitous state of the Church. Nearby right of the facade the situation is terrible, an enormous crack demonstrates the force of the quake, and the risk of a collapse is almost sure. The adjacent buttresses are on the verge of collapsing and his separation of the walls is more than well-known. The later part presents major danger, multiple cracks have destabilized to the whole wall that gives to the reredos, putting in risk the inhabitants of nearby houses. In the interior the structure sees the damage in countless fissures in all. The stairs of access to the choir also is very awkward; the vestry has stayed in very bad state, cracks and detachments throughout. All these damages are determinant for the disqualification of the temple before an imminent collapse.

The image of the Señor de Burgos and all other images, you have been withdrawn and at present they are in the house of Missis Hilda Rodríguez Eguren. The equipment and banks also have been located in the lounge contiguous to the temple.

The specialists recommend the demolition of the Church and his reconstruction. To recover the ancient tower and frontage of the church is the target of the committee and devout in a possible new construction.

The anguish of all the faithful and the whole city is big and the desire that the Señor de Burgos Church opens his doors again, it is enormous, but the challenge of building the temple again becomes complicated; the principal difficulty, the absence of economic resources.