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The cathedral of the city of Córdoba is located in the historic center of said city, which practically coincides with the geographical center of the city; its southeast angle (which is the one taken as a directional reference) faces the corner of Independencia and 27 de abril streets.

It occupies the wide block that is in front of the west side of the Plaza San Martín (old Plaza Mayor), on its north side the great church is separated from the town hall by an old alley called Santa Catalina, the back of the temple overlooks the Rivera Indarte street, its main facade is oriented towards the east-south-east, which is unique in the churches of its time since they should have the main altar facing Jerusalem (in this case, it should be towards the northeast, although found to the northwest).

The building itself was started in 1580 with the name - which still bears - Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. In 1598 the alfarje or major master builder Gregorio Ferreira and the stonemason Juan Rodríguez undertook the construction of the building with sufficiently solid materials (stone, bricks and lime). In 1601, the carpenter Mateo Domínguez undertook to make a framework of slats and beams for the roof, while Hernando Álvarez was commissioned to supervise the manufacture of 30,000 "musleras" tiles, the direction of the work was shortly afterwards entrusted the Granada architect Ricardo González Merguete, who made various plans; the works gained strong momentum thanks to the architects and Jesuits. Gian Battista Primoli (or Juan Bautista Prímoli) designed the main plan of the plant (Latin cross of basilical type) following the model of the almost contemporary Jesuit church of Il Gesù in Rome.



In 1706 the cathedral was officially consecrated.



Later, the Franciscan Fray Vicente Muñoz designed and directed the construction of the magnificent large dome with a dome. During the first two centuries of its construction, many aborigines from the Jesuit estates worked on the work, several of these aborigines were extraordinary craftsmen and they left their mark on many of the baroque details of this cathedral.















The Cathedral of Córdoba is the mother church of the Argentine city of Córdoba, capital of the province of the same name.



For these reasons it is a National Historic Monument, three blocks from the Jesuit Block, which is a Cultural Heritage of Humanity in accordance with what is established by Unesco.

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