Bishop Lasso Archdiocesan Museum in Maracaibo

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Located on the corner of 94 Carabobo Street and 4 Obispo Lasso Avenue, next to the Regional Pantéon and at the back of the Baralt Theater, in a house built in the early twentieth century, with a hipped roof of wood and red tiles, with decorated eaves built in masonry, its facade has a door and two windows, these with shelf, dust cover and wooden bars, while on the side of the avenue has 5 with the same characteristics.

It was the residence of the Bishop of Mérida Rafael Lasso de la Vega when he was transferred to Maracaibo in 1812 after the earthquake in that city, which is why the museum bears his name.

It was the home of the Diocesan Seminary of Zulia. It was founded by Father Gustavo Ocando Yamarte on October 24, 1990 and inaugurated on June 24, 1991. It was closed in 1996 and reopened in 2010.

It contains religious articles from different periods, both historical and artistic, such as gold and silver work, liturgical ornaments, paintings with religious motifs, images, sacred vessels, candelabras, monstrances, monstrances and even a replica of the old main altar of the Cathedral of Maracaibo.


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Perhaps the most curious is a splinter of the original cross where Christ was crucified, of Italian origin, which belonged to Santa Elena, daughter of an innkeeper who went to Jerusalem and dug in the mountain to find the cross. There is also the first crown of the Virgin of Chiquinquirá, after her apparition on the shores of the Lake.

It is made of silver inlaid with semiprecious stones and a Hammond organ, of which only three were made in the world in 1969, one of which belonged to the Basilica of Maracaibo.

There is also a room called papal, where it shows in an exclusive showcase the chair where Pope John Paul II sat during his visit to Maracaibo in 1985 and in one of the pillars is an ivory Christ of 504 years, which was placed to the pontiff in the room where he slept.

A wonderful place to visit.


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