Mar del Plata Cathedral

In the late nineteenth century the city of Mar del Plata, southeast of the province of Buenos Aires Argentina, had a population of about 6,000. Today there are more than 600,000, and its one of the most important tourist areas in Argentina. In 1892, a group of society ladies presented a letter to municipal mayor Clemente Clayrol, saying they needed a larger temple than Santa Cecilia Chapel. Some of these ladies were daughters of the great promoter of the city, Don Pedro Luro and together with other high society women, were responsible for gathering the necessary funds to complete the construction of a temple worthy "of the Catholic Society Mar silver".