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of
'un lur
Huasi-the first headquarters of
th
vaniard
in Cuzco. In the beginning, that is,
during th
arly period of the C nqu
t, it was
principally constructed of adobe and served as
tbe Cathedral itself was being construct d. When
in
165,1
th
ecclesiastical seat was
transferred
to the Cathedral the Church of the Triumph be–
came th Moth r Parish of the Spaniards.
In the second half of the seventeenth cent–
ury. the principal master of the construction
ot
the Cath dral d n Diego Arias de la Serda, im–
proved this church building the cupola or dome
of the transept which may be seen today.
In the eighteenth century, on October 28th,
1729, Bishop don
e na do Serada rebuilt the
rrrium h
d r the na e of Iglesia of the Sa-
grario o
riqmph, in memory o
the descent
of the Virgin Mary to this place-formerly called
Suntur Huasi
here the companions of Pizarra
took r fuge during the
f
orrdidable attack made
by the Inca Manco II for the purpose of expelling
the conquerors and regaining the domain of the
Incas. Although
it
is true that this work was
begun as early as 1664, it was not then finished.
This new construction which was ordered by the
prelate "'ras completed with the money given by
dean Goyzueta years before-therefore the Church
of the Triumph was built in three periods: the
first
during the sixteenth century when it served as a
cathedrial;
the second during the sevent enth
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