Ecuador

Church of the Society of Jesus, Quito

A Jesuit church at the heart of historic Quito The Church of the Society of Jesus, commonly called La Compañía, stands on García Moreno Street in Quito’s historic center. Its address, Benalcázar N5-62 and Sucre, places it within a compact district of churches, plazas and colonial-era civic buildings. The church is not simply a richly decorated interior: it is part of a larger Jesuit complex and a city whose steep Andean setting shaped its streets,…...