Location San Miguel Denomination Roman Catholic Church | Country El Salvador | |
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Similar Museo Regional de Oriente, San Salvador Cathedral, San Miguel, Cathedral of Santa Ana, Playa El Cuco | ||
The Cathedral Basilica of Queen of Peace (Spanish: Catedral-Basílica Reina de la Paz), also called San Miguel Cathedral, is a Catholic church located in the city of San Miguel, El Salvador.
In 1740 the mayor of San Salvador, Manuel Gálvez del Corral, stated in a report that in San Miguel parish church existed, with two convents (San Francisco and La Merced) and two hermitages (San Sebastian and Calvary).
In 1862 this parish church, which bore the name "St Michael Archangel" was demolished to build a larger temple that would also serve as an oratory of veneration of the Virgin Our Lady of peace. It is presumed that the first stone was laid by President Gerardo Barrios on November 21 of that year.
The first charge of its construction was the English engineer William Kirk who had to leave the project shortly after the death of Barrios. Even unfinished, the temple received the rank of cathedral by papal decree of Pius X, on 11 February 1913. Eight years later, precisely on November 21, 1921, Monsignor Juan Antonio Dueñas yArgumedo proclaimed the Patronage of Our Lady Peace and gave papal coronation of the image on behalf of Pope Benedict XV. The cathedral was declared completed in 1962 with the promotion of then pastor Oscar Romero, exactly a century after construction works have started.