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Koricancha,
(Quechua language, gold enclosure)
It was the main Inca temple in
Cusco City, the
Temple of Inti (the supreme god-the sun), it is a masterpiece of the
Inca architecture, built in blocks of carved granite and smelted gold in the
junctures of the blocks. Inside the temple existed a garden in which the trees,
birds, animals, etc. were represented in gold. The Spanish built the church and
Dominican convent on top of the original structure around 1534 but they
collapsed during the earthquake of 1650 and were rebuilt around 1681. The
convent possesses an art gallery of valuable seventeenth and eighteenth century
canvasses. Also called The Sun Temple or Coricancha. |
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