PORTUGAL GUIMARAES -CHURCH OF THE DOMINICAS

IGREJA DAS DOMINICAS

(CHURCH OF THE DOMINICAS)

Notes from the history of Guimaraes refer to the existence of an old temple built to evoke the martyr S. Sebastiao that would have existed in the Campo de Francisco until 1570, in the location where around that time, the church was built.

With the dissolution of the religious orders and the demolition of the parochial church 1892, it is the church de S. Sebastiao that occupies the former Convento de Santa Rosa de Lima, built between 1727 and 1737.

 From the existing assets, the highlight goes to the main altar in glided wood, atop of the church – built in the years of 1741-42, 2 lateral altars in glided and polychromed wood, from1745, the altar from the 20^th century embodying the Image of S Sebastiao, in neoclassic style, the Johannine organ, built in 1776 in glided and polychromed wood and a set of pelmets in glided wood from the Johannine period.