Sanctuary of Saint Rose of Lima, Catholic sanctuary in Central Lima, Peru

The Sanctuary of Saint Rose of Lima is a house of worship in central Lima built with colonial-style stonework and wooden altars. The building holds historical religious objects, paintings from earlier centuries, and the rooms where the saint spent her life.

Rose of Lima was born in this house on 30 April 1586 and died in 1617. Devotees began gathering here after her death, and in 1669 Andrés de Villela bought the house and donated it to the Dominicans to be made a chapel and sanctuary. The sanctuary church was built in 1728 on Hospital del Espíritu Santo land, before her canonization in 1671. In the 20th century about a third of the church, including its baroque portal, was demolished for Tacna Avenue; the surviving presbytery and part of the nave were incorporated as the transept of a new church, and the sanctuary was remodelled and inaugurated on 24 August 1992.

The sanctuary centers on honoring Saint Rose, who spent her days here in prayer and service to others. Visitors can see the spaces where she lived and worked, which remain important to local religious practice today.

The sanctuary stands on the first block of Tacna Avenue, in Lima's historic center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991. Part of the original church was demolished in the 20th century to open the avenue, so the surviving presbytery and part of the nave now form the transept of the rebuilt church. The main altarpiece is kept intact to one side of the interior.

A cherry wood carving is tied to local stories about protecting Lima from pirates during colonial times. Visitors and worshippers today still regard this object as evidence of the site's spiritual power.