Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Oliveira
Collegiate church in Guimarães, Portugal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Collegiate church in Guimarães, Portugal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Oliveira is a collegiate church in Guimarães, Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument.
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The church was founded as a double monastery in about 949 by Countess Mumadona Dias, the widow of Count Hermenegildo González. It was donated to the Catholic Church by King Ramiro II. In 1074/1075, Pope Gregory VII prohibited double monasteries and by 1089 the monastery transitioned to a single monastery. Around 1139, the monastery was turned into the collegiate church Colegiada de Nossa Senhora da Oliveira . The collegiate church was shut down in 1911, but reopened in 1967.[1]
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