Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church Panaji Goa
Hilltop Baroque church founded as a mariners' chapel, crowned by a whitewashed zigzag staircase and Goa's second-largest bell.
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This guide to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church in Goa starts with Portuguese sailors climbing the hill above the Mandovi River in 1541 to give thanks after a six-month crossing, in a Panaji that was then barely a fishing village. It follows the chapel's growth into the white church standing today, rebuilt in 1609, and traces the church's great bell back to a ruined Augustinian monastery on Holy Hill in Old Goa, once among the richest complexes in the East. Along the way it lingers on the crews and townspeople who worshipped here long before the bell ever arrived.
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