The terreiro, historically affiliated with Candomblé Bantu, has the largest remaining urban area of the Atlantic Forest, approximately 15.5 hectares.
As time went by, Bernardino, already very famous, founded Candomblé Bate Folha, located in Mata Escura do Retiro, in Salvador, Bahia.
The land where Candomblé is established, at Travessa de São Jorge, 65, is surrounded by century-old trees and considered the largest terreiro in Brazil which, at the time, was presented to Bamburucema , its second muquixi, since the first was Lemba .
In this way it is clear that, due to the origins of Manoel Encoce, Bate Folha is Congo and maintains Angola, on the part of Maria Neném .
It was on December 4, 1929 that Bernardino took out his first boat, whose Rianga (1st Son of the house) was João Correia de Mello , who was also from Lemba.