Our Lady of Guadalupe Unfinished Cathedral

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Basic information
Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral
Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral in September 2007
Location	Michoacan, Mexico
Geographic coordinates	19°59′01.13″N, 102°16′50.95″O
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic
Architectural description
Architectural type	Church
Specifications

Our Lady of Guadalupe Unfinished Cathedral, best known formerly by its abandonment, is now the Our Lady of Guadalupe Cathedral, located in Zamora, Michoacán in the country of Mexico.

1 History
2 Beginning
3 Abandonment
4 Reconstruction
5 The Sanctuary today
6 Image Gallery
7 External Links

[edit] History

On February 2 1898, Candlemas, was placed the first stone of this temple; under the ministry of the second bishop of Zamora, Dn. Jose Ma. Càzares y Martinez. The project, of neogothic style, is attributed to the zamorano Jesus Safe Hernandez. The area destined to the temple and annexes was 20,000 square meters. The Diocese had been born in 1862 and needed a cathedral.

[edit] Beginning

The works of construction initiated in 1898, more than 300 men working on the planes and the conception of a superb cathedral, neogothic style with high towers and a new design in center, call Cruise, where a cupola would go, an element not known in the neogothic style. The immense cathedral would contain 5 extensive ships, 4 of them were totally put a roof on at the end of 1910; enormous amounts of quarry are traian to accelerate the works, but unfortunately much was lost, since there was no monitoring and it was within reach of any person.

The Mexican revolution brought problems and confrontations to all the country. In 1914 the works of construction were suspended by problems derived from the revolution and the cristeros, when giving warning to the workers of which they returned to his houses, the construction of the new cathedral was suspended per indefinite time.

[edit] Abandonment

When interrupting itself the construction, half of the cathedral was finished, 4 ships were ready, all the pillars were in its place, the conflicts and him persecution of the Christians I force the cathedral in construction to become soothes of the army, to those who the lost one of all the planes of the cathedral is attributed, the original ones and the copies never became to see; I am only a drawing with the original facade and a general plane of the construction.

During the beginning of its abandonment, much quarry disappeared that still was kept, apart from which serious damages to the niches of the pillars and the walls became. The army I take advantage of one the stone walls next to apse to turn it a wall of punishment, where possibly hundreds of people died by their faith; proof of it is the hundreds of holes that caused the bullets and that still remain intact, like a sad memory to the people who died there.

[edit] Reconstruction

After many attempts to reclaim the new cathedral, nicknamed by the zamoranos “the unfinished one”, in 1988 Mons Josè E. Jiménez Robles, eighth bishop of the city profit to rescue it and a year later, was decided to dedicate it to the “Virgin of Guadalupe "". When interrupting itself the construction in 1914, was put a roof on 4 ships, being open pie the central ship and trancepto, for being highest and wide they constituted a true challenge. To all world its completion seemed impossible to him, the patronage that really took the work did not know clearly what it was due to do, for example, to obtain economic resources; it only knew that they were before something difficult but noble, for being the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Project of reconstruction beginning in 1990, where the new facade was designed that would have the sanctuary, designed the needle that would go in the place where it assumed would be the cupola, that it is an element that does not go with the gothic art; the towers were redesigned to take them more break and I pave the vestibule to offer major stability to the building. First stage consisted of cleaning all the walls, to clear the mud to them thus to continue with second, that was to repair to the damages in the parts of force of walls and pillars, to repair cracks and to stabilize the ground where it would go the floor and the other elements.

[edit] The Sanctuary today

main facade in September 2007.

At the moment, construction is on the verge of concluding. The towers are rising to the sky and the last details are about to be finished. With the newly installed spires, the towers would reach a height of 105 ms; the inner illumination is completely finished, although, it lacks some details in two of the chapels that are currently being used as offices. In niches on pillars, planks with the images of the saints were placed. Underneath these images are pieces of quarry with their respective names.

[edit] Image Gallery

Interior	The cathedral at dusk	105 meters of height	Main altar of the sanctuary
Metallic structure that will maintain the organ in the interior	The Sanctuary viewed from Hidalgo St.