Basilica of El Cisne, Minor basilica and national shrine in Loja Province, Ecuador.

The Basilica of El Cisne is a neo-Gothic church in El Cisne, Loja Province, Ecuador. It has a three-nave, cross-shaped plan, with a main facade as wide as the transept and an ambulatory around the round apse. The German Lazarist priest Pedro Huberto Brüning designed the original project with three portals and one great central tower; later architects Ugo Faggioni, Paolo Russo and Ángel Sangucho added two towers that were never built. The cedar-wood statue of the Virgin stands at the center of the main altar, and the campanile stands apart from the church.

Four successive shrines preceded the present church: a thatched hut, a tile-roofed enlargement, and a 1750 building that held Quiteña-school images. After the Virgin's canonical coronation on 8 September 1930, work on a new church began on 15 August 1934 under priest Ricardo Fernández, following a neo-Gothic design by German Lazarist Pedro Huberto Brüning. It was completed on 17 November 1978, consecrated on 12 August 1979, and made a minor basilica in 1980.

The cedar wood statue of the Virgin Mary is the spiritual center of this church, drawing believers from across the region who come to pray before it. Many visitors light candles and leave offerings near the figure as part of a living devotional practice.

The basilica stands in El Cisne, a mountain village in Loja Province; the bell tower is separate from the church, and the main facade faces north. Pilgrims gather around 17 August for the three-day procession carrying the statue to Loja, where it stays until 3 November. Plan a visit outside those dates for easier access.

The cedar statue was carved in Quito in 1594 by the Spaniard Diego de Robles, not by a local artist. The church's original design by German Lazarist Pedro Huberto Brüning planned a single central tower; the later two-tower facade was never built. The Campanile stands apart from the church.