Parish Nuestra Señora de Balvanera is a Catholic church located in the district of Balvanera in the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.[1]
History
The parish of Balvanera was established in 1833 during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas.[2] The first priest was Mariano Medrano Cabrera and he performed the first baptism, of Pedro José Crespo, on May 16, 1833.[3] The first registered marriage was on July 2 of that same year, between Justo Avalos, born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, and Feliciana Leyva, from the town of San Isidro. Antonino Canaveri and Lucrecia Calderón acted as witnesses.[4]
Around 1839, Rosas entrusted the architect José Santos Sartorio with the construction of a new church, which was completed in 1842.[5] Antonio Picarel was in charge of increasing the height of the building's dome.[6]
The current facade of the Parroquia Nuestra Señora de Balvanera was completed in 1930.[7]
