The church of San Isidro is a religious temple of worship Catholic and parish under the invocation of San Isidro Labrador Canton Vásquez de Coronado in Costa Rica .
The existing temple was completed around 1935 in style Gothic is a reference to the citizenship of Coronado and a must for anyone who comes to this city. The parish records collected notes on their books since 1878.
In 1862 the neighbors communicate to the bishopric their desires to build a church and ask for a commission charged to study and determine the most appropriate point for construction name.
They were part of a fee the priest of San José Nereo Bonilla and the engineer Francisco Kurtze . They decided that the best location for the future temple was the center of a plain on which the city is settled. The neighbors, eager to rapid construction of the temple, offered supplies of those normally used, especially wood. The engineer said the project had to be durable and be constructed of materials that abide by the passage of time, with a good foundation stone.
The same year, 1862, the building permit was obtained and began the acts to raise the necessary funds to do the same.
In 1864 the plans, which cost 8 escudos paid, and when it enters the new butler, Prudencio Lamb, in 1866 there were 255 escudos in October and ends the year with 379.
During the following years is still collecting donations, these are not only cash but also in kind, hogs, corn, firewood is collected ...
The church was the center of social life of any city. It served as a showcase for their economic and social status and one of the ways to do this show was the make generous contributions to the congregation.
On 21 November of 1880 the new church was inaugurated. For their attention priests of the neighboring parish of San Vicente were those who began to walk the new temple moved.
With a solid appearance, with arches on their doors and windows, columns attached to the walls remembering the Renaissance style with gabled roof and framed by two towers and between which another rose, as provided circle segment, where the clock is located. Her side doors and the main looking west.
A year after the inauguration, in 1881 , José Victoriano Mayorga takes over as head of the new church.
This church functioned as a branch of the parish of San Vicente but parishioners wanted to have their own parish. Picking this sense the priest José Victoriano Mayorga wrote to the bishop asking conversion to parish. On August 10 of 1881 makes getting the following message when Ecclesiastical Government of the Diocese of San Jose.
The Gothic style of the new church
In contrast to the old building brick colonial style with Renaissance flavor, it was decided that the new temple was gothic, such as Notre-Dame of Paris ( France ) and columns as the Cathedral of Cologne (Germany).
On February 25, 1929, after payment of 30% of the value corresponding to the steel structure materials, Krupp begins sending the materials needed for construction. Following the acquisition of the necessary tools and preparation of logistics accurate begin to excavate the foundation in August. In November Costa Rica reaches the metal frame in the steam "Antioquia" the port of Puntarenas and thence by rail to a square Víquez and from there to your destination by road to help the people.
The frame pieces arrived in oxcarts to all residents of Coronado and the surrounding towns gave, there were nights that were more than 50 carts working on hauling parts Square Víquez to Coronado.
The foundation, built to 4 feet deep, were paths metal plates 1 x 2m on which the ships were lifted. Voluntarily worked many parishioners whose effort was viewed as raising the beautiful Gothic church.
The architect designs concrete ceilings but the neighbors, for fear of earthquakes and the damage they can do the concrete slabs falling from the ceiling, proposed to be wooden. The proposal of the village is collected and constructed wood (which gave the desired result in earthquakes April and June 1983).
Some changes to the original project were performed towers and Gothic rose windows were removed, these being replaced by a classic style, the windows were simplified and a number of angels in the higher pinnacles added.
The tower was constructed and put the old clock (although with problems over the performance dimension, going to handle a sphere to handle four).
The tower was completed with the necessary bells. The bells were purchased from France to the home of Georges Les Fils Paccard. They bought a bell, MI 1,050 kg and 1.8 m in diameter and a weight of SOL 650 kg and a diameter at the base of 1m.
