Republic Square (Buenos Aires)

In 1733, Don Domingo de Acassuso built the Church of St. Nicholas in Bari at the intersection of del Sol street, which was later named after St. Nicholas, and then received the name Avenida Corrientes, at the intersection with Carlos Pellegrini Street, which then did not even have a name . The building was built in a colonial style, which did not have a bell, until the 1900 reform. The Church of St. Nicholas in Bari is the only colonial church in Buenos Aires ^[1] .

After construction, the church was in a poor area near the slaughterhouse. Dirt from animals, sickening smells. In these conditions, the first years of the nuns - Capuchins , who arrived in 1750 from Chile after a long and difficult journey, and who lived in the church of San Juan Bautista, which is a Catholic parish for the Indians there, spent the first years ^[1] .

Iglesia de San Nicolás de Bari Church at the end of the 19th century

The pastor of this church, Eduardo O'Gorman, founded a shelter for children who roamed the streets and were engaged in begging, later he was called the "Shelter for Orphans." The priest was the brother of Camilla O'Gorman, who lived opposite the church and in 1847 was at the center of the scandal along with Ladislao Gutierrez, a priest from a neighboring church ^[1] .

In 1936, it was decided to resume the long-standing project proposed in 1890 by the mayor of the city, Francisco Seeber, to expand Avenida Avenue on July 9 from north to south, crossing the main streets between Lima and Cerrito streets and also between Ipolito Irigoiena and Carlos Pellegrini streets, between Avenida Avenues Leandro N. Alem and Avenida Caseros . To implement this work, Mayor Mariano de Vedia and President Bartolome Miter decided to demolish the church of San Nicolas ^[2] . Famous personalities such as Mariano Moreno, Bartolome Miter and Manuel Dorrego were baptized in this church, in addition, this is the place where the flag of Argentina was first raised in 1812.

Initially, they were planning to erect a monument to Ipolito Yrigoyen in the square. But in 1936, Vedia and Miter, hastily and without asking the opinion of the inhabitants of the city, instructed the architect Alberto Prebisch to begin the construction of the Obelisk, which was built over sixty days; before the inhabitants of the city could tell their opinion about the monument, it was already built. The height of the monument is 67.50 m and it has four sides, one on each side of the world ^[2] . The obelisk immediately became a center of ridicule and protests of local residents, three years after its construction, the city council ordered its demolition, but the mayor vetoed this decision and other attempts to demolish the monument were also unsuccessful ^[1] . This square, or rectangular monument, has undergone numerous reconstructions. It was a round, oval, rectangular with rounded ends monument ^[2] . The obelisk was dedicated to various events referenced by inscriptions on each side of the monument, one of which is the fact that the national flag was first hoisted here in the city in August 1812, in St. Nicholas Church, which stood on the spot where the Obelisk is located today. In a sense, this is regarded as killing his grandfather and erecting a bust in his honor at the crime scene ^[2] .