This work is the result of studies of the transformations occurred in the old Largo de Nazareth and its surroundings, as long as it was still a small habitation site of Placido family man who found an image of Our Lady of Nazareth in 1700 in the city Belém, Pará 's capital, a city in the Amazon, northern Brazil . The Nazareth Shrine belongs to the range of Marian Shrines around the world, however, was nonexistent a Master research on the site where it was built, showing the architecture implemented on site.The Nazareth Largo meets every year, two million people participating in the Feast of the Cirio and the research sheds light on the evolution of the architectural process that formed the place. He sought to answer the gaps on the architecture developed in Nazareth from the first hut to the transformation of the Square "Just Chermont" in a Sanctuary Square, through historical events that favored the appearance of the place and its final adaptation as sacred space to the Catholic religion. The survey gathered Nazareth Parish publications, Archdiocese of Bethlehem, Barnabites Fathers, Public Archives and Official Sites justifying the bibliography, documentary consultations, visits, questionnaires and new photographic records of the subject matter.
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