page_title: Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Snows, João Pessoa
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Snows, João Pessoa / See also
caption_attribution_description: Português: Altar-mor do interior da Catedral Basílica de Nossa Senhora das Neves, em João Pessoa. Paraíba, Brasil.
context_page_description: The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Snows also called João Pessoa Cathedral is a Catholic church located in the old town of João Pessoa, capital of the state of Paraiba in Brazil. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Paraíba.
  A church dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows was built on a hill by the first settlers of Paraiba in 1586. It was a simple building, mud, which was rebuilt in the early seventeenth century. In 1639, a Dutch chronicler Elias Herckmans, refers to it as yet unfinished in its Overview of the Captaincy of Paraiba. The construction and renovation continued during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, always in the midst of economic difficulties.
  In 1894 it was declared cathedral.
context_section_description: Roman Catholicism in Brazil
  Our Lady of the Snows (disambiguation)
caption: Internal view
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