Basilica of the Macarena
Headquarters of Esperanza Macarena
The building is the headquarters of the Brotherhood of La Esperanza Macarena, which makes penitence station in the early hours of Good Friday with the images of María Santísima de la Esperanza Macarena and Nuestro Padre Jesús de la Sentencia. Its construction was begun in 1941, when on April 13, Pedro Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Seville, blessed the land on which it was built and laid the foundation stone of the temple; and completed in 1949, being blessed on March 18 by the same archbishop and acting as godparents Queipo de Llano and Serafina Salcedo, and consecrated by Cardinal José María Bueno Monreal, archbishop of the city, on October 7, 1966.
The work was carried out by the Sevillian architect Aurelio Gómez Millán, and it is a single-nave building with side chapels.
The building is a single-nave building with side chapels.
The temple obtained the dignity of Basilica Menor by a bull of November 12, 1966 granted by Pope Paul VI, thus being the first Sevillian temple to hold this dignity.
