The Old Cathedral of Managua, known as the Catedral de Santiago in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, is a cathedral

Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop...

 in Managua

Managua

Managua is the capital city of Nicaragua as well as the department and municipality by the same name. It is the largest city in Nicaragua in terms of population and geographic size. Located on the southwestern shore of Lake Xolotlán or Lake Managua, the city was declared the national capital in...

, Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

.

It was designed in, and shipped from Belgium

Belgium

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 in 1920 by architect Pablo Dambach. The cathedral survived the 1931 earthquake

1931 Nicaragua earthquake

The 1931 Nicaragua earthquake devastated Managua, Nicaragua on 31 March 1931. It had a magnitude of 6.0, and killed 2000 people....

 but was extremely damaged due to the 1972 earthquake

1972 Nicaragua earthquake

The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake was an earthquake that occurred at 12:29 a.m. local time on Saturday, December 23, 1972 near Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. It had a magnitude of 6.2 and occurred at a depth of about 5 kilometers beneath the centre of the city. Within an hour after the main...

 and was condemned, which led to the construction of the new cathedral of Managua

Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception , referred to as the New Cathedral , is located in Managua, Nicaragua...

 or "Catedral de la Concepcion", the newest constructed Roman Catholic cathedral. However, in recent years, the restoration of the old cathedral has appeared to be possible and it is currently awaiting its renovation.

Santiago's Cathedral old tower clock, which was damaged during the Contra Civil War

Nicaraguan Revolution

The Nicaraguan Revolution encompasses the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the campaign led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front which led to the violent ousting of that dictatorship in 1979, and the...

of the 1980's, later removed during renovations to the cathedral in the late 1990s, is now at the National Palace of Culture.