Iglesia Catolica Apostolica Ortodoxa de la Santisima Virgen Maria, Orthodox church in Providencia, Chile.

The Iglesia Catolica Apostolica Ortodoxa de la Santisima Virgen Maria is a church building featuring Tudor architectural elements with an octagonal bell tower. The structure includes pointed arches on lower windows and doors that characterize its distinctive style.

The building was constructed in 1932 as a Protestant church designed by architects Josue Smith Solar and Thomas Smith Miller. It was sold to the Antiochian Orthodox Church in 1978, marking a significant change in its religious purpose.

The church keeps its 1932 Tudor shell but its interior was reworked between 1978 and 1984 for the Antiochian Orthodox community: an iconostasis painted with apostles now screens the altar, and the entrance pillars and arches were removed to open the view inward. Walls and decoration carry vine-leaf and lily-flower motifs, and the surfaces are fully painted in the manner of Islamic architecture. There are no sculptures, only two-dimensional images.

The church stands at the corner of Pedro de Valdivia (No. 92) and Nueva Providencia (No. 2020, north side), in Providencia. The entrance was opened up by removing pillars and arches, so the doorway on Nueva Providencia leads straight into the two-nave interior. Next door on Nueva Providencia is the small Plazuela Elías IV, with a relief of the patriarch, a convenient landmark for finding the building.

The 1978-1984 renovation removed the entrance pillars and arches so the doorway would invite passers-by in; until then the Antiochian parish admitted only Arabs. The eastern extension built in the same works became the parish house, and inner courtyards were converted into classrooms, a library, workshops and event halls.