Granada Cathedral

Granada Cathedral (Catedral de la Encarnación de Granada) is the seat of the Archbishop of Granada. It is located in Granada in Andalusia, southern Spain.

History

After the conquest of Granada was determined to an archdiocese on 21 May 1492. Although urged Queen Isabella I of the imminent construction of a representative cathedral, but was given only after her death of Ferdinand II in order.

First, the grave Capilla Real was built, which was completed in 1517. The foundation stone for the construction of the cathedral took place on 25 March 1523. The plan of the architect Enrique Egas saw a 115 meters long and 65 meters wide cathedral in the Gothic style before. After the dismissal Egas in 1528, Diego de Siloé changed the floor plan in a circular choir and a five-aisled basilica in the Renaissance style. When the chancel was built in 1561 ready, it separated him from by a wall from the rest of the building and used it as a cathedral. Until then, the former main mosque had served as the seat of the archbishop.

Changing builders continued the building: Juan de Maena (1563-1571), Juan de Orea (1571-1590), and Ambrosio de Vico ( 1590-1623 ). 1667 Alonso Cano changed the plan for the main façade in a baroque design. 1704, the building was declared over, 181 years after the groundbreaking ceremony.

The cathedral has a rectangular plan with nave and two side aisles. The architecture of the church building continues in the semicircular chancel.

Affairs

Inside impress the height, the clear width and the whitewashed walls. The fact that the beginning of the 20th century, the choir screen was removed, one has an unobstructed view through the whole length of the cathedral.

Of special importance are the choir and side chapels of the cathedral, consecrated to various saints. In the chapels are precious pictures and carvings, mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Organs

Two Organs are parallel at the end of the nave. Both sides richly decorated brochures. They were built by Leonardo Fernández Dávila: on the Gospel side 1744-1746, based on the epistle from 1746 to 1749.

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