La Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús y San Ignacio de Loyola: poder, élite y religión en la vida republicana cubana (1907-1923)

In 1914, the Society of Jesus began the construction of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Havana. The neo-Gothic style temple constituted the effort of religious to strengthen their ties with the local elites. The main objective of this work is to analyze the construction process of the property, as well as to verify the economic supports that favored its conclusion. To achieve the proposed research goals, the collaboration and contact networks built between clerics and a group of members of the wealthy classes have been studied. In turn, the analysis of documentary sources has made it possible to determine how the architectural complex in question constituted a Jesuit effort to situate itself in a political and symbolic panorama dominated by liberalism. Furthermore, the scope of the social legitimation proposal offered by the priests to the Catholic-oriented Cuban bourgeoisie that rewarded the ignatians with the consumption and support of their religious proposal was evident.