La Recolección, another one of Antigua Guatemala's large convents and monasteries |
Iglesia y Convento de la Recolección, a total ruin with no restoration at all since the 1773 earthquake |
La Recolección was built 1701-1708 in the northwest corner of the city |
Ruins of Church of the Recollection, Antigua Guatemala |
Iglesia de la Recolección, Ruins in Antigua Guatemala |
Giant blocks of rubble from the collapsed roof and fallen walls fill the church's interior |
Giant pieces of rubble at La Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
Iglesia de la Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
A bricked up doorway, now mostly buried, La Recolección |
Ruins of the Iglesia de la Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
Ruins of the Iglesia de la Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
Ruins of the Iglesia de la Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
The octagonal frame of an upper window at La Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
Ruins of the Church of the Recollection, Antigua Guatemala |
Ruins of the Church of the Recollection, Antigua Guatemala |
Ruins of the Convento de la Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
Ruins of the Convento de la Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
Ruins of the Convento de la Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
La Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
One small dome seems to have survived the 1773 earthquake |
The sole surviving piece of the original masonry roof at La Recolección |
La Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
Ruins of La Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
A passageway, perhaps part of the former cloisters |
Tiles of the floor of a vanished building at La Recolección |
Ruins of La Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
Ruins of La Recolección, Antigua Guatemala |
Inside looking up at the sole surviving vault, not completely intact however |
Arch of the former front entrance to the Church of the Recollection, Antigua Guatemala |
Façade on the west side of the Colegio de San Jerónimo, Antigua Guatemala |
Façade on the west side of the Colegio de San Jerónimo, Antigua Guatemala |
Statue on the façade at Colegio de San Jerónimo |
Statue on the façade at Colegio de San Jerónimo |