Tegucigalpa Cathedral

The St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral[1] (Spanish: Catedral Metropolitana de San Míguel Arcángel) is a Catholic temple in Tegucigalpa,[2] Honduras.

It is when the Bishop of Honduras Diego Rodriguez de Rivas y Velasco, at that time apostolic hierarch in the city of Comayagua, in 1756 ordered the construction of a new temple on the same site, charging that objective the priest Jose Simeon Zelaya Cepeda.

The parish of St. Michael the Archangel was founded in 1763, while the cathedral began to be built between 1765-1786 by Father Jose Simeon Zelaya Cepeda, who had studied in the Tridentine College of Comayagua, the architect was Joseph Gregory Billzarian Quiroz, of Guatemalan origin; the work was consecrated and inaugurated by Fray Antonio de San Miguel in 1782.

The Cathedral of San Miguel de Tegucigalpa is one of the oldest and most important buildings in the city that is preserved to this day in good general condition.

The building has a place in Honduran history that is not limited to the sphere of influence of the city of Tegucigalpa but to the entire country, being the most renowned and traditional church since the beginning of the 20th century.

On the left side of the lithograph you can see part of the disappeared La Limpia de la Inmaculada Concepción colonial church, the structure still existed when the cathedral had already been finished, this is the only visual record of its existence. 19th century litograph by William Eleroy Curtis .
View of the Cathedral of Tegucigalpa in 1904.
The golden altarpiece from the 18th century inside the cathedral.