in Montera street, at the height of number 25, stood in the late seventeenth century, a church under the patronage of San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, on the ruins of an earlier hermitage dedicated to San Roque.
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anonymous author, 1859. Puerta del Sol during the renovation, when the buildings were demolished between the Calle de Alcala and Montera.A right, the towers of the Church of San Luis fire in 1935. Photo taken from the web www.urbanity.es
anonymous author, 1859. Puerta del Sol during the renovation, when the buildings were demolished between the Calle de Alcala and Montera.A right, the towers of the Church of San Luis fire in 1935. Photo taken from the web www.urbanity.es The Church of San Luis Obispo originally belonged to the parish of San Ginés constituency, but in the early twentieth century merged with Our Lady of Carmen to form the Parish of Our Lady of Mount Caramel and San Luis.
Photo of 1929 the first telephone pole Network of San Luis. Behind the missing towers Kirche San Luis Obispo. Tomi Courtesy of Old Madrid forum.
church plant was a Latin cross with side chapels, and stressed its cover, with a statue of the patron saint carved in limestone.
The church was burned in 1935 and only its facade was saved from the mid twentieth century is placed in the neighboring parish of Our Lady of Mount Caramel.
Current photograph of the old facade of the Church of San Luis on the current Parish of Our Lady of Mount Caramel and San Luis, in the street of Health.
The widening of Calle Montera to the Gran Via is the Red de San Luis, which owes its name to a bread market was located here, near the Church of San Luis, which is delimited by means of networks.
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