Basílica de San Nicolás de Bari, Buenos Aires, Minor basilica in San Nicolás district, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Basílica de San Nicolás de Bari is a minor basilica in the San Nicolás neighborhood with two matching towers and French Academic style architecture completed in 1935. Its interior features a central nave flanked by side chapels decorated with mosaic work and religious artwork.

The original church was founded in 1733 and stood at the Corrientes and Carlos Pellegrini intersection until it was torn down in 1931. This current building was constructed as a replacement on Santa Fe Avenue and completed in 1935.

The church keeps the baptismal font where Mariano Moreno, Bartolomé Mitre and Manuel Dorrego were baptized, along with the altarpiece from the old temple. To the left of the entrance, a chapel holds the image of the Virgin of the Forsaken, patroness of Valencia, brought from Spain. The first Argentine saint, Héctor Valdivielso Sáez, baptized here in 1913, is venerated in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.

The entrance on Avenida Santa Fe 1352 is set back from the street line and reached by a triple staircase, so the doorway sits above pavement level. The church stands a short walk from the Obelisco, on the site of the old temple demolished in 1931. Look for the chapel of the Virgin of the Forsaken to the left of the entrance.

Only one of the four bells is original: it is dated 1807 and carries Masonic symbols, and it was rung during the May Revolution. The other three were cast in 1935, when the church had already moved to Santa Fe Avenue.