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Igreja e Hospício de Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem

Salvador, Brazil · built 1712

The Church and Hospice of Our Lady of the Good Journey (Igreja e Hospício de Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem) is an 18th-century Roman Catholic church located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The church is dedicated to Our Lady of the Good Journey and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia. It is located on the Itapagipe Peninsula and faces west directly onto the Bay of All Saints. The Church and Hospice of Our Lady of the Good Journey has a single tower with a frontispiece covered in blue and white azulejos in a zigzag pattern. It was listed as a historic structure by the National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN) in 1938.

Monument data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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