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- The Basilica Cathedral of Cuzco City
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Description
The Inca built a temple known as Kiswarkancha on the main square of Cusco. The temple was built in honor of the gods of the Inca people, the god Sun, the goddess of the moon, the stars, and the rainbow. It was built using large stone blocks that were finely cut without any mortar and fitted together, leaving no space between the stones, which is a typical style of Inca architecture. The temple was magnificently built with so much gold and silver. That was a sacred place for the Inca. In the 16th Century, however, the Spanish destroyed most of the temple after arriving in Cusco. Instead, they used the ruins as the foundation for the cathedral’s construction. Many historians view this act as an overtaking of one religion by another. It was the birth of the present-day Cusco Cathedral. Construction of the Basilica Cathedral of our Lady of Assumption began in 1559 on the foundations of the destroyed temple of Kiswarkancha. It is built in the shape of a Latin Cross and designed in a Gothic-Renaissance style with some baroque touches. The structure was not completed until 1654. The Spanish chose to build in on this location to annihilate the Inca religion and replace it with their faith, Spanish Catholic Christianity. The cathedral building started only 26 years after the conquistadores entered Cusco in 1533 when most of the population was still Quechua, Inca. The Spaniards used the Incas as laborers to build the cathedral.
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