Máximo de la Merced Convent of Quito

The Church and Convent of La Merced are located between the streets Cuenca, Mejía, Imbabura and Chile, in the historic center of Quito. Its beauty is exceptional for the stonework of its facades and for its priceless treasures housed inside the convent, the cloister has a courtyard of 29 meters per side, is bricked. In one of the corners of that same courtyard is now a stone cross, whose structure adorned for several centuries the corner of the atrium of the church.The cross rests on a die on whose faces the four evangelists have been represented on whose front is engraved the shield of the Mercedarian Order and on one of the sides, the date of the year 1927 in which it was placed in that patio, 30 years after having been eliminated of the atrium. Four lions decorate the four angles of the base, in its superior part.The main cloister of the church is one of the most attractive in Quito, with stone pillars and fascinating white passages, as well as a wide courtyard that has a magnificent fountain carved in stone in the center, with a figure of Neptune. In the upper cloister there is a series of paintings depicting the life of St. Francis Xavier, which was painted by Brother Hernando de la Cruz.