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The Former Cathedral of Senhor Bom Jesus de Cuiabá (Antiga Catedral do Senhor Bom Jesus de Cuiabá) was an 18th-century Roman Catholic church in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. It was demolished in 1968 and replaced by the

The church was dedicated to Our Lady of Help and belonged to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cuiabá.

Location

 * reword this entire thing: The Church of Our Lady of Good Delivery is located at the top of Morro do Seminário, the highest point in the Historic Center of Cuiabá. Churches were placed on the highest points of settlements in colonial Brazil. The historic settlement of Cuiabá had three highest points: the Parish Church (Matriz) and center of power at the city was at the highest; followed by the Church of Our Lady of Good Delivery and the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary on the other two high points. They formed what become known as a "religious triangle" in Cuiabá. ***

Timeline

 * 1722 – First church of Senhor Bom Jesus de Cuiabá built in 1722 of palha by Captain-General Jacinto Barbosa Lopes
 * 1723 – January 1. Elevation of Cuiabá to level of vila and celebrated with procession to new church
 * 1739 – Second church Senhor Bom Jesus de Cuiabá built to replace plaha structure with taipa, which soon collapsed
 * 1740 – Third church and final Church of Senhor Bom Jesus de Cuiabá built under Vicar João Caetano Leite with "alms of 12 twenty cents" (esmola de doze vintens)
 * 1770 – Construction of two towers
 * 1785 – Alterpiece gilding by Henrique Joaquim da Veiga Valle
 * 1968 – Cathedral demolished for construction of modern structure

History
Cuiabá initially had two streets that ran parallel to the Córrego da Prainha, a small tributary of the Cuiabá River. The Rua de Cima was the upper street, and Rua de Baixo, the lower.

The old cathedral of Senhor Bom Jesus de Cuiabá was built in 1722, by

Captain-General Jacinto Barbosa Lopes built the former Cathedral of Senhor Bom Jesus de Cuiabá in 1722. [It was a cr, and was originally built on a crude ranch covered with straw. This initial construction was replaced by the construction of a temple in 1739 which soon collapsed and was replaced by another one in 1740. Since then, the building has undergone several changes in its architecture until it was demolished in 1968, for the construction of a new cathedral in the same location.]

Demolition
The cathedral was demolished in 1968 under the pretext that it was structurally unsound. The decision was widely criticized. Etzel points out that it took "numerous loads of dynamite" to demolish the structure, questioning its lack of structural integrity.

"The dynamiting of the old Matriz scored a sign of strength, due to the symbolic content that expressed the tensions between the old and the new, the provincial and the metropolitan, the conservatism and the progressive, the traditional and the modern that antagonized Cuiabá society."

Exterior
Clocks were placed on both spires of the Cathedral. The first tower was added to the Cathedral in 1771, and included a clock. A second clock was donated in 1842 by José Antonio Soares, a businessman in Cuiabá. The second tower was added in 1929, and featured a clock manufactured in 1909. It was made by the Vitaliano Michelini family, who went on to produce clocks for the tower of the Luz Station and Mappin Department Store in São Paulo.

Interior
The Cathedral held a rich collection of altars, imagery, paintings, furniture, lamps, and other liturgical objects. Its rich, baroque-style interior wood gilding is seen in documentary photographs. Some were salvaged and are known from the collection of the Museum of Sacred Art. They include:

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 * A monumental wood gilded Paschal candlestick (18th century, 1.4 m)
 * An iron trevolated cross (1.4 m).
 * A gilded, wood statue of Saint Joseph (São José de Botas) (18th century, 66 cm).
 * A pair of plaster angel torch chandeliers, one in blue and one in pink (19th century, 100 cm).
 * A metallic ampule (19th century, 27 cm)
 * A metallic paten (20th century, 16 cm).
 * A metallic, gilded ampule (19th century, 27 cm)
 * A small, polychrome gilded wood torch candlestick (17th century, 65 cm)
 * A processional torch lantern (19th century, 149 cm)
 * 3 baroque altarpiece crownings, wood carving with polychromatic painting (17th century, 1.8 cm, 1.8 cm, 14 cm)

instrumento
 * A harmonium (20th century, Fábrica de Órgãos e Harmônios J. Edmundo Bohn, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil)
 * Electric organ (mid-20th century)
 * Upright piano (20th century, Gustav Breyer, Hamburg, Germany)

Remains
Numerous elements of the former Cathedral were relocated at the Sacred Art Museum of Mato Grosso and other properties of the Archdiocese of Cuiabá. The Museum preserves the imaginary, altars, and liturgical objects, and 1909 belltower clock. The museum additionally holds documents of the old Cathedral, including drawings and photographs. The 1842 belltower clock of Bishop Dom José Antonio dos Reis was placed in a prominent position on the side base of the bell tower of the Church of Saint Gonçalo in the nearby Prainha neighborhood, and is visible from many points in the city.

Footnote

 * A.In Portuguese: "A dinamitação da velha Matriz ganhou força de signo, pelo conteúdo simbólico expresso nas tensões entre o velho e o novo, o provinciano e o metropolitano, o conservantismo e o progressista, o tradicional e o moderno que antagonizavam a sociedade cuiabana."