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Many of the paintings are retablos, many-paneled screens with Gothic-arched frames that stood behind chapel altars.
The center of the capital is a kaleidoscope of golden rooftops, multicolored costumes, steep temple steps layered with wares like market shelves, country women hawking produce spread on the streets, sari-draped matrons placing flower petals on altars to grimacing gods, the sudden eruption of a band of musicians or a herd of goats across your path, the scent of marigold garlands and of dumplings fried in oil, the constant jangling of bicycle bells and rickshaw horns.
It has Gothic arches, a splendid inlaid cedar ceiling of Moorish design, beautifully carved blue-and-gold choir stalls, gilded altars, and a sprinkling of nice azulejos (blue-and-white ceramic tiles).
A lengthy but transfixing WP "Style" article peers into the chambers of the Church of Satan, a San Francisco-based group whose roster of twisted rituals includes "satanic baptisms" and the use of nude women as altars.
See also Altars; Camposanto; Descansos; Hábito; Mandas; Religious Folk Art; Santos