Church of the Saviour (El Salvador)
Chapter 10/12 · Sevilla
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The Church of El Salvador is one of the great Baroque churches of Seville. Here stood the city's first great mosque, the mosque of Ibn Adabbás, built between 829 and 830. It was the main one until the Almohads opened the new one in 1182, where the cathedral stands today.
After the conquest of 1248 it became the church of the Divine Saviour, and in the 15th century a collegiate church. In the 17th century it had sunk so much that, according to the chronicles, you had to go down about 20 steps to enter; it was demolished in 1671, but the new church collapsed in 1679, and they had to start again. Leonardo de Figueroa finished the works in 1712.
Inside, people venerate Jesús de la Pasión, carved by Juan Martínez Montañés in 1615. Now we walk east to the Casa de Pilatos.
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