Old Cathedral of Managua
The Santiago de Managua Cathedral is the ruins of the old Cathedral of Managua. It is located in the Plaza de la Revolution, formerly Plaza de la República. It was built as a steel-framed building clad in neo-classical style. The facade layout is similar to that of St- Sulpice de Paris.
Cathedrals in Managua
The first cathedral of Managua had built in 1783, the priest Juan Antonio Chamorro. Monsignor Lezcano y Ortega was ordained on May 3, 1914 Simeón Pereira y Castellón, the first bishop of León and last of Nicaragua, and Cándido Piñol y Batres, the first bishop of Granada, in the first cathedral of Managua. The first cathedral was demolished in 1925. The present cathedral of Managua is dedicated to the Inmaculada Concepción de María. Your cassette dome shows a cross-cultural design.
Laying the foundation stone
For the Catedral de Santiago de Managua, José Carlos Solórzano Gutiérrez on April 5, 1925 the foundation stone. A first draft by March 10, 1926 consisted of a large central nave with separate Campanile before. Monsignor Lezcano liked a better on a photograph and he commissioned the engineer Pablo Dambach, a church to design it based on the photos. The steel was imported from Belgium.
Financing
The Parliament passed a law to finance the cathedral, which imposed a tax of one United States dollar on every quintal of coffee, what José María Moncada Tapia supported. Monsignor Lezcano invested money he had inherited from his relatives the Cabrera family. The Atelier Metallurgiques, de Nivelles in Belgium computed United States dollars for the steel skeleton 89.094.55.
Earthquake in 1931
On March 31, 1931 at 10:33 clock Managua was destroyed by an earthquake of 5.6 degrees on the Richter scale and killed more than 1,000 people. Monsignor Lezcano rescued with his own hands the ashes of Jose Dolores Estrada Vado and then helped the victims. The metal construction of the cathedral remained intact, such as a photograph shows.
Of Somoza's Cathedral
On December 1, 1938 Anastasio Somoza García opened the cathedral. In the cathedral of Anastasio Somoza García's birthday married, February 1, 1943 his eldest daughter Lillian Somoza Debayle Dr. Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, this was followed until 1979 Ambassador of the Somoza family in Washington. On July 24, 1946 during the centenary of the appreciation of Managua, the city, the cathedral was consecrated. The eastern outer side of the nave housed in niches figures of Bartolomé de Las Casas, Antonio de Jesús Margil, Isabella I (Castile ), Monsignor José Antonio Morales Lezcano ( an uncle of Monsignor Lezcano ), Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand VII (Spain) and Francisco Hernández de Córdoba.
1972 earthquake
On December 23, 1972 at 12:35 clock in Managua there was a quake of 6.2 degrees on the Richter scale and two aftershocks at 13:18 and 13:20 clock. This destroyed the center of Managua and killed about 11,000 people, of the cathedral collapsed the roof.