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Today we only have the church of all the rooms that were part of the Monastery of San Agustín but we know the layout of this ancient building thanks to Father ToscA's plan dated 1704. In this property of enormous dimensions - it would reach the current IVAM - they had a refectory, infirmary, novitiate, cells, two cloisters, porter and library and it was inhabited until August 6 of the year 1835 which, due to the religious confiscations led by Mendizábal, had to be abandoned. The church, which followed functioning uninterruptedly, it was built in the 14th century in the French Gothic style prevailing at its time, it consists of a single nave divided into seven sections covered with ribbed vaults that rest on corbels and chapels arranged between the buttresses. In this temple, the elevated choir located at the foot, the Byzantine-style icon known as “Mare de Deu de Gracia” and the modern bell tower built by the architect Luis Ferreres Soler in 1912 in an eclectic style with Gothic reminiscences.

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The church of San Agustín is a temple religious belonging to the disappeared Monastery of the Augustinians built at the beginning of the 14th century outside the walls of the City by order of Fray Francisco Salelles with the mission of venerating his patron saint, Saint Augustine of Hippo. This property has suffered a lot throughout its more than six centuries of history since it was razed by the French during the War of Independence, converted into a military barracks , prison, museum and completely destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. The current temple and its bell tower were rebuilt in 1945 by the architect Javier Goerlich Lleó.

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