Panteón de los Próceres

Church of San Carlos
(*Panteón de los Próceres*)
Church of San Carlos; (Panteón de los Próceres)
Iglesia de San Carlos
Religion
Affiliation	Catholic
Governing body	Archdiocese of Lima
Location
Location	University of San Marcos
Architecture
Style	Spanish colonial
Completed	1765

The Heroes' Pantheon (Spanish: Panteón de los Próceres) is a crypt inside the old Church of San Carlos, located at the former Real Convictorio de San Carlos in the historic centre of Lima, that holds the remains of 24 of the national heroes of the Peruvian War of Independence.^[1]

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The Church was inaugurated on January 17, 1765. It belonged to the Jesuit novitiate of San Antonio Abad, but it was transferred after the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish territories. The Church was rebuilt after the 1746 Lima–Callao earthquake leveled Lima, and in 1876 it became the Chapel of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. In 1924, the remains of various heroes of the wars of independence (1821–1824) were transferred to a crypt just under the altar and the Church was renamed "Panteón de los Proceres", a name which remains to date.^[2] The Pantheon features murals by José Sabogal.

In 2024, PROLIMA announced the restoration of the church.^[2]

Here, the remains of 24 independence heroes and 41 effigies are preserved.