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Ermita San Gregorio Magno, Nigua, Dominican Republic, Caribbean

Nave and altar of the Ermita San Gregorio Magno, a 17th century hermitage and sugar plantation chapel, part of the San Gregorio Magno sugar production complex and in the Nigua sugar mills area, Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. The chapel has one nave with a polygonal apse, buttresses and brickwork arches, and was restored in 1922. African slaves working on the plantation were converted here. It is now run as a parish church. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Nave and altar of the Ermita San Gregorio Magno, a 17th century hermitage and sugar plantation chapel, part of the San Gregorio Magno sugar production complex and in the Nigua sugar mills area, Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. The chapel has one nave with a polygonal apse, buttresses and brickwork arches, and was restored in 1922. African slaves working on the plantation were converted here. It is now run as a parish church. Picture by Manuel Cohen