Igreja de Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora, Salesian church in Cuiabá, Brazil

Igreja de Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora is a Salesian church in central Cuiabá featuring Neo-Gothic architecture with ribbed vaulting. The structure stands on Tenente-Coronel Duarte Avenue and displays distinctive architectural elements typical of this style.

The church was built in the 1910s by the Salesians and dedicated to Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora. Father Francisco de Aquino Correa directed the project and construction, and was soon ordained Bishop of the Prelature of Senhor Bom Jesus, which covered nearly all of Mato Grosso. The sanctuary is attached to the Colégio Salesiano São Gonçalo and belongs to the parish of São Gonçalo do Porto, the first Salesian parish in the world.

May is the Marian month here: Sunday Masses include the coronation of Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora, and on 24 May a procession carries the venerated image of the Virgin through the surrounding streets. The church belongs to the parish of São Gonçalo do Porto, the first Salesian parish in the world.

The church is attached to the Colégio Salesiano São Gonçalo on Avenida Tenente-Coronel Duarte, in the São Gonçalo do Porto parish area. Visitors enter through the school complex; the ribbed vaults are best seen from inside the nave. Sunday Masses include the May coronation of Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora.

The statue blessed by Don Bosco stands at the entrance of the Colégio São Gonçalo, not in the church itself. The first Salesian priests brought it from Italy, and the saint, who dreamed repeatedly of the Virgin Auxiliadora, blessed it before it crossed the Atlantic.