This church is placed in Kambambe, Province of Kwanza Norte and it was built by order of the Governor Manuel Cerveira Pereira, in 1603.
It owned some slaves and was the religious local where the slaves were baptized with other names arising from the Factories (Feitorias) and from the captures made by the portugueses in the neighbour villages to be used as cheap man-power in the plantations and mines that the europeans had in american lands.
It is a state property and the responsibility for its maintenance and preservation concerns the Ministry of Culture.
[1] This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on November 22, 1996, in the Cultural category.
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