<p class="title_brown"><strong>Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima</strong></p>

<p class="subtitle_brown">Eastern side of the Prayer Area</p>

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<p class="normal_text">Built from 1928 under the project of Gerardus van Krieken, the first of the basilicas of the Shrine of Fatima was continued by Jo&atilde;o Antunes, who kept the aesthetic conception of the 19th century drawn by the first designer. The architectural option reminds the classical structured churches set up on the neo-baroque idea moulded in elements such as the large nave enlightened by lateral chapels which sustain the wide superior gallery from which starts the vault, as a pseudo transept which priors the presbytery or as a very deep main chapel, showing the large panel, inspired by the joanine baroque which uses petrous material for translation of the &ldquo;baroque fest&rdquo;&nbsp; here interpreted according to the freedom of the 20th century eclecticism.<br />
In this place, which in 1951 received the remains of Jacinta Marto, the following year the remains of Francisco Marto and in 2006 the ones of seer Lucia, very important sculptors and painters pontificated, enhancing the silver work of the tabernacle and the bronzes of the lateral panels (of Jo&atilde;o Antunes/ Alian&ccedil;a Jewellery and Martinho de Brito respectively), the two stained glass campaigns (the ones in the main chapel and the ones on the church body, these from Jo&atilde;o de Sousa Ara&uacute;jo, who also signs all the canvas painting), the statuary (from the fifties, from Maximiano Alves and Stela Albuquerque, Carvalheira da Silva, Martinho de Brito and Ant&oacute;nio Paiva, and from the year 2000, from Jos&eacute; Rodrigues and Clara Men&eacute;res) , and the elements of the presbytery restructured by Joana Delgado, dated from 2016 and signed by Bruno Marques. At this time the great organ there installed since 1952 was also renewed by the Mascioni Organi house.</p>
