Iglesia de las Nazarenas

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  • Address
    cnr Huancavelica & Tacna, Lima Centro
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  • Phone
    423 5718

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The most passionate of Lima's traditional religious feasts centers on the 18th-century Iglesia de las Nazarenas. A shantytown inhabited by liberated black slaves once sprawled on this site, and it was here that an ex-slave painted an image of the Crucifixion of Christ on a wall that miraculously survived when the area was leveled by the 1655 earthquake.

The church of the Nazarene was later built around this wall, and on October 18 of each year a copy of the mural, known as the Lord of the Miracles, is carried from church to church in a thousands-strong procession that lasts two to three days.