Cathedral Basilica of Potosí

The Cathedral of Villa Imperial de Potosí or Cathedral of Potosí, the official name is Cathedral Basilica of Nuestra Señora de La Paz is a minor basilica and cathedral with baroque and neoclassical colonial influence. It has a stone façade and is located in Plaza 10 de Noviembre in the center of this Bolivian city of Potosí. It was built between 1809 and 1836 on the site where the old church collapsed in 1807. Its main promoter was the Friar Manuel Sanahuya.

The 19th century entered the Neoclassical style, leaving us, among other works, its maximum example, the new Major Church, today the Cathedral Basilica corresponding to the years 1809-1836, and whose author was the Spanish, Franciscan friar and architect by profession Manuel de Sanahuja, introducer in Potosí of the Neoclassical style, who simultaneously to the Cathedral did other works in both religious and civil architecture.