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Interior
There are remarkable paintings, especially in
the chapter of the chance!, one of the artists who
assisted in the decoration of this church being
· the painter Juan de Alva.
The tablets are also valuable;
that of the
pr incipal a1tar is ornam·ented with mirrors.
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choir raHings are especially meritorious.
The Church of St. Peter
This church stands to the west of Santa
Clara.
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It was erectetl at the close of the seventeenth
century. The first stone was laid in 1688, the
founder being Andrés de Molinedo. Prior to that
time
it
had been the parish church and hospital
of the natives, and had been practically destroyed
by the earthquake.
In the
reconstructions huge stones were
brought from the Inca fort in the Cerro de Pik–
chu fronting Sacsahuaman. The expense of this
great ,construction was largely borne by Andrés
de Molinedo, together with Bishop Manuel de Mo–
linedo y Angulo, its first prelate.
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