Early days The first chapel of Saint Sebastian built in Manaus dates back to 1859, and served as a place of worship for the lay members of the Brotherhood of Saint Sebastian. It was a wooden chapel, covered in
straw and installed in the old Conde D'Eu Street, now Monsenhor Coutinho, in the center of the city. However, the oldest reference to the beginning of the construction of the current church is from 1868, when the provincial president
Leonardo Ferreira Marques, in his Report on the Transition of Government, dated November 26 of that year, said that the work on the Chapel of Saint Sebastian, ordered by Leonardo Malcher, was about to begin.
Project The floor plan for the new church was designed by Sebastião José Basílio Pyrrho, the same architect who projected the current
Metropolitan Cathedral of Manaus. In May 1877, with the church still under construction, the president of the province,
Domingos Jaci Monteiro, authorized the use of materials left over from the construction of the current Mother Church to build the new temple of Saint Sebastian. == See also ==