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Saint Ignatius of Loyola Church

Cl. 10 #6-27, Bogotá

Baroque Jesuit church seized by the crown, renamed for a king, and held by strangers for over a century.

This guide to the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in Bogota traces what happened after Spain's king ordered every Jesuit property in his empire seized in 1767: the building renamed for the king who expelled its builders, run under someone else's name for over a century, and the Jesuits' long, repeatedly interrupted fight to get it back. It follows that struggle through further expulsions and a modern restoration that had to save the same dome all over again.

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