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Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar

Name: Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar
Address: Havana, Havana, CU

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Yohanka

November 4, 2015

Shocking Architecture, piece of jewelry, one of the most beautiful churches in the country

Aime (Luna)

July 25, 2018

Opened in 1953, this is Cuba’s second largest church, which is visible for several blocks due to its vast dome built in Roman-Byzantine style. The Jesús de Miramar church boasts 14 large mural paintings by Cesareo Marciano Hombrados y de Onativia. In one station, the artist portrayed himself as one of the executioners disrobing Jesus; and in another he used his wife, Sara Margarita Fernández, as the model for Virgin Mary. Curiously enough, most of the people who paid for these murals were included in the crowd scenes. In the garden there is a 1.8-meter-tall sculpture made of Carrara marble, a copy of the Virgin of Our Lady of Lourdes.