Basilica de la Ceiba de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe

Basilica de la Ceiba de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe is one of El Salvador's most important religious institutions. La Ceiba de Guadalupe is another name for it.

It was completed in 1953, mainly to the assistance of German benefactor Walter Deininger. The construction of this temple, however, began four decades earlier, when Father Antonio Brunetti decided to take the initiative to create a shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe, Latin America's patron saint. Father Brunetti picked La Ceiba, a small canton located on the city borders with Antiguo Cuscatlán, as the location for the future temple, to which he later added the name of the black lady of America to its denomination (Ceiba de Guadalupe).

This church is dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe, whose feast day is December 12 each year. As a result, each December, numerous mechanical games and typical Salvadoran culinary companies are built in its surrounds. On that day, December 12, scores of children dress up as "indigenous" to honor the involvement of the Mexican Indian Juan Diego in the miraculous appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531 on the slopes of Tepeyac hill in Mexico.

Address: San Salvador, El Salvador