Igreja da Madalena
In Igreja da Madalena, Lisbon once had a church whose story is measured in rebuildings after catastrophe. The first structure was ordered by D. Afonso Henriques and dates to either 1150 or 1164, emerging shortly after the city’s conquest from the Moors. In 1363, a fire completely destroyed the church, and Ferdinand I of Portugal had it rebuilt. Cyclonic damage followed in 1600, and then the church was demolished by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. When the church rose again, it was not until 1783, when Queen Maria I required another rebuild. Even then, change continued: in 1833, the church underwent alterations, and the portal—a Manueline trefoil arch—survived intact through the 1755 disaster. That portal was classified as a National Monument in 1910, a rare continuity of form through repeated loss. …
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