Iglesia de Santa María la Blanca
Baroque church built over a medieval synagogue, its hidden torah ark rediscovered after three centuries.
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This guide to Iglesia de Santa María la Blanca in Seville traces the building from a synagogue granted to the city's Jewish community in the 1250s, seized and converted to a church after a 1391 mob attack, to canon Justino de Neve's obsessive 1660s Baroque rebuilding. It follows the artisans he brought in, including the Roldán brothers' sculpted vaults and his friend Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's paintings, and the grand procession that unveiled the finished church in 1665.
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