Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos (Salvador)

Bahia · Brazil

Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Pretos (Salvador), Brazil
Photo: Paul R. Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A blue-and-white baroque church in the Pelourinho built over decades by an Afro-Brazilian brotherhood of enslaved and freed people. Its interior blends Catholic imagery with Candomblé influences, and it remains a center of Black Catholic devotion.

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