Church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim, Catholic church in Salvador, Brazil

The Church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim is a brick-and-stone church on the Colina Sagrada of the Itapagipe Peninsula in Salvador. Its Rococo pediment and volutes sit above a facade covered in white-and-yellow Portuguese azulejo tiles since 1873, flanked by two towers with bulbous roofs. Inside, a single nave leads to a Neoclassical baldachin altarpiece carved by Antônio Joaquim dos Santos in 1813–1814, with a ceiling painted by Franco Velasco.

Captain Teodósio Rodrigues de Faria, of the Portuguese navy, vowed during a storm to bring an image of his devotion to Brazil; a replica of the one in Setúbal reached Salvador on 18 April 1745 and was kept in the Church of Penha. Construction of the church on the Colina Sagrada began in 1745–1746, the interior was finished in 1754, when the images were carried there in procession, and the towers were completed around 1772. In 1927 Pope Pius XI raised it to a basilica.

The Bonfim ribbons date to 1809, when treasurer Manoel Antônio da Silva Servo introduced them to raise funds for the devotion; each is cut to the length of the right arm to the chest of the Senhor do Bonfim image. The Festa do Bonfim begins on the second Thursday after Three Kings Day with a procession from Conceição da Praia, and the doors stay shut while baianas wash the steps with scented water, chants and afoxé rhythms.

The building opens for regular services, and visitors can observe from the rear during Mass as long as they remain silent. The site sits on a hill, so several steps lead to the main entrance, and access may become slippery after rain.

On the church's second floor, a museum room holds ex-votos in carved wood, silver and gold shaped like the body part healed after a vow. Among them is a coin struck by a revolver bullet, said to have saved its owner's life. The same room keeps an 1854 French organ donated by Feliciana Maria de Britto Lopes Alves, with 290 pipes and about four metres tall.