A restauração da Igreja Matriz Nossa Senhora do Carmo de Boa Vista-RR e a busca pela identidade católica

Abstract

This articlestudies the role of the Igreja Matriz Nossa Senhora do Carmo, located in the center of Boa Vista-RR, as a space of belonging and religious identity. It starts from the assumption that the church is a place that, endowed with an affective connection with the inhabitants of the city, becomes a monument of the characteristics that the city wants to keep of itself. The article first brings a theoretical discussion about umbilical relationshipson identity and memory and then deals with the restoration of the church by public authorities and the engagement of the religious community in the search for its founding traditions. The study was carried out using photographs that tell the process of restoration of the local church, local pressreportsand interviews with Father Raimundo Vanthuy Neto and administrator Frank Lima, linked to the process of reform and maintenance of the Church.

Keywords

• igreja matriz nossa senhora do carmo
• memory
• identity
• catholicism
• boa vista-rr