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The Igreja da Madalena is located in Santa Maria Maior (Madalena, Lisboa) parish.

The Madalena Church that currently exists is the result of several reconstructions of the church that had been built in 1150 or 1164, by order of D. Afonso Henriques near the Moorish fence.

In 1363, a fire destroyed the church, having King D. Fernando I ordered to rebuild it.

In 1600, it was partially destroyed due to a cyclone and, in 1755, was again lying down by the Earthquake of 1755.

Queen Dona Maria I, in 1783, had the church rebuilt again from its foundations. Later, in 1833, the church was the subject of some changes.

The Madalena Church belongs to the Brotherhood of the Lord Jesus of Forgiveness, St. Catherine and Our Lady of Bethlehem and has inside it an image of the Christ of Forgiveness, as well as paintings by Pedro Alexandrino de Carvalho and sculptures by José de Almeida e Machado Of Castro.

The church's portal, Manueline style, is considered one of the works to highlight this time. It is thought that he came from the Church of the Conception of Freires, also destroyed by the earthquake. In this trilobed arch portal, two armillary spheres can be seen.

The Portal of the Church was classified as National Monument by the (Decree 16 of June of 1910, DG 136, of 23 of June of 1910). (OSM data version: 2017-01-19T15:17:02Z) #mapsme