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{{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site
| image         = Iglesia de Caguach.jpg
| image_upright = 1.2
| caption       = Church facade
| location      = [[Caguach]], [[Quinchao]], [[Chiloé Province]], [[Los Lagos Region]], [[Chile]]
| part_of       = [[Churches of Chiloé]]
| criteria      = {{UNESCO WHS type|(ii), (iii)}}(ii), (iii)
| ID            = 971-016
| coordinates   = {{coord|42.5103|S|73.2660|W|source:wikidata|display=title, inline|format=dms}}
| year          = 2000
| locmapin      = Chiloé#Chile Los Lagos#Chile
| map_caption   = 
}}
The '''Iglesia de Caguach''' (in English, ''Church of Caguach'') is a [[Catholicism|Catholic]] [[church (building)|church]] located on the island of [[Caguach]], in the [[Communes of Chile|commune]] of [[Quinchao]] on the [[Chiloé Archipelago]], southern [[Chile]].

The Church of Caguach was declared a [[National Monuments of Chile|National Monument of Chile]] in 2000<ref>[http://www.monumentos.cl Retrieved 26 February 2013.]</ref> and is one of the 16 [[Churches of Chiloé]] that were declared [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]]s on 30 November 2000.<ref>[https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/184 World Heritage Committee Inscribes 61 New Sites on World Heritage List]. whc.unesco.org. November 30, 2000. Retrieved 6 January 2013.</ref>

In 1919, the original Church of Caguach was destroyed completely by a fire, and rebuilt in 1925 by local inhabitants using wood, the material used in the original structure. This was the third church built in Caguach.<ref>[http://www.monumentos.cl/OpenDocs/asp/pagDefault.asp?boton=Doc52&argInstanciaId=52&argCarpetaId=274&argTreeNodosAbiertos=%280%29%2860%29%28274%29&argTreeNodoSel=274&argTreeNodoActual=274 Iglesias tradicionales de Chiloé]. Monumentos.cl. Retrieved 15 January 2013.</ref>

Its [[patron saint]] is [[Jesus]] of Nazareth, also the patron saint of the [[Church of Aldachildo]], whose feast day is celebrated on August 30 and also on the third Sunday of January.<ref>[http://www.monumentos.cl/OpenDocs/asp/pagDefault.asp?boton=Doc52&argInstanciaId=52&argCarpetaId=274&argTreeNodosAbiertos=%280%29%2860%29%28274%29&argTreeNodoSel=274&argTreeNodoActual=274 Iglesias tradicionales de Chiloé]. Monumentos.cl. Retrieved 15 January 2013.</ref> This is the most important religious holiday of the [[Chiloé Archipelago]], having been established originally in 1778 and encouraged by Spanish [[Franciscan]] missionary Fray Hilario Martínez,<ref>[http://www.monumentos.cl/OpenDocs/asp/pagDefault.asp?boton=Doc52&argInstanciaId=52&argCarpetaId=274&argTreeNodosAbiertos=%280%29%2860%29%28274%29&argTreeNodoSel=274&argTreeNodoActual=274 Iglesias tradicionales de Chiloé]. Monumentos.cl. Retrieved 15 January 2013.</ref> and the Church of Caguach forms the center of festivities, which involve music, dancing and processions.<ref>[http://www.biobiochile.cl/2010/08/18/fieles-de-la-isla-grande-de-chiloe-celebraran-la-fiesta-del-cristo-nazareno-de-caguache.shtml Fieles de la Isla Grande de Chiloé celebrarán la Fiesta del Cristo Nazareno de Caguach]. Biobio.cl. 18 August 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2013.</ref><ref>Archipiélago Chiloé: El encanto de una isla misteriosa. Editorial Kactus. p.37</ref> The image carried during the festivities represents [[Jesus]] during the [[Passion (Christianity)|Passion]] as he carries the [[True Cross|cross]], dressed in a purple robe and wearing a [[crown of thorns]].

== References ==
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[[Category:Wooden churches in Chile]]
[[Category:Churches in Chiloé Archipelago]]
[[Category:World Heritage Sites in Chile]]
[[Category:Colonial architecture in Chile]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic churches completed in 1925]]
[[Category:20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Chile]]


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