Salvador - Cathedral

Cathedral

On the Terreiro de Jesus, adjoining Praça da Sé, is the Cathedral, originally the church of the former Jesuit College, which was built between 1604 and 1656. The façade was faced with stone from Portugal at the end of the 17th century; the interior was decorated in Baroque style in the 18th century. At that time the Jesuit seminary was the largest of its kind outside Rome.

Also on the Terreiro de Jesus are the church of São Pedro dos Clérigos (1709) and São Domingos de Gusmão (1731), the church of the Third Dominican order, with a Rococo façade.