Andahuaylillas
Temple of St. Peter the Apostle
It is a town located in the province of Quispicanchis of the city of Cusco, created towards century XVI by the denominated reductions of Indians realized by the virrey Toledo during his stay in the city in that period. Located about 45kms southeast of the city of Cusco on the route that leads today to the city of Puno, it boasts like many places that were created under this regime and purpose, a temple of worship that in its time served the catechizing purposes Ecclesiastics of the period after the Spanish conquest. As was customary today, the “jewel” of this village that represents the temple of San Pedro Apostle was built on the foundations of a huaca or Inca worship, witnessed by the rocks carved from the foundations they hold in many cases glyphs whose meaning was lost with the empire to which it belonged, according to historical data the work began towards the year 1610 on the initiative of the priest Juan Pérez de Boca Negra. This temple is, so to speak, among his brothers, one of the best preserved his mural paintings, which are appreciable today after an effort to restore it, the baptistery with its inscriptions in Quechua, Latin, Spanish and the last trace of what would have been the Puquina, is of necessary mention as far as this is concerned, in addition to their ironically insistent invocations to hell with those who intimidated the natives, forcing them to turn to Catholicism, all this work in murals would come from the hand of the master Luis Reano who painted them towards the seventeenth century. On the other hand are outstanding the Mudejar coffered ceiling decorated and two organs of incalculable historical value not only for the fine arts that adorn them but also for being considered among the oldest examples of its kind in Latin America. The paintings that evoke the life of San Pedro and others were made by the outstanding painters Cusqueños Diego Quispe Ttito and Tadeo Escalante. To finish, today with the title of Sistine chapel of america, its altars are a living example of the Andean influence in the baroque art and with justice is also conforming of the already known route of the Andean Baroque.
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