Igreja e Hospício de Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem, Catholic church and hospice on the Itapagipe Peninsula, Salvador, Brazil

Igreja e Hospício de Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem is a baroque church and hospice complex built in the early 1700s on the Itapagipe Peninsula overlooking the Bay of All Saints. The church originally had one nave with side aisles but was later expanded to three naves, while housing carved wooden altars, Lisbon tiles from the mid-1700s, and jacaranda wood furnishings in the sacristy.

Lourenço Maria donated the Itapagipe Peninsula land to the Franciscan Order in 1710, and the brick and mortar church was built in 1712 with a nave, side aisles and tribunes. Its walls were finished between 1743 and 1746, and the main altar dates to 1720. A renovation between 1908 and 1912 demolished the nave walls, removed the azulejos, replaced walls with iron-tube pillars, lowered the floor and covered the five arches of the northwest façade.

The dedication to Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem, Our Lady of the Good Journey, was given by the Franciscan Order, which received the land from Lourenço Maria in 1710. The church faces west onto the Bay of All Saints, a short distance from the Small Fort of Our Lady of Monserrate. The sacristy keeps its original jacaranda cabinet and trunks, and a white marble lavabo with dolphin motifs and a shell-shaped basin.

The church faces west directly onto the Bay of All Saints on the Itapagipe Peninsula, a short distance from the Small Fort of Our Lady of Monserrate. It is open to the public and may be visited; the hospice is arranged on two floors around a courtyard. Look for the five arches of the northwest façade, covered during the 1908–1912 renovation.

The sacristy keeps its original jacaranda furniture, including a cabinet and trunks, and a white marble lavabo with dolphin motifs and a shell-shaped basin, comparable to other Bahian lavabos of the same period. The 1720 main altar, of unknown authorship, resembles the one in the Franciscan Church of São Francisco.