Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón, Montevideo

The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón ( Church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart ), better known as Parroquia de Punta Carretas, is a church in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo.

The montevideanischen in Barrio Punta Carretas located, originally the Capuchin Order associated church is located at the corner of Solano García and José Ellauri. The neo-Romanesque building designed by the architect Elzeario Boix, was built in 1917 and consecrated in 1927. For the construction of the Catholic Women's League of Uruguay and Juan Zorrilla de San poet Martín had particularly used; this gave a speech at the inauguration ceremony.

The church is equipped with a derived from the 1954 Walcker organ. Since 1997, the Church as Bien of Interest Municipal, a building of particular urban interest, classified.

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