Casa das Minas, Afro-Brazilian temple in São Luís, Brazil.

Casa das Minas is an Afro-Brazilian temple in the historic center of São Luís with two main buildings connected by walls. The complex includes spaces for communal meals and religious ceremonies that take place throughout the year.

The temple was founded in the 1840s by Maria Jesuína, a woman from present-day Benin who brought religious practices from her homeland. This Tambor de Mina tradition became established in northeastern Brazil from that point forward.

The temple preserves spiritual traditions brought by its founders that remain visible in how people gather and perform ceremonies today. Women lead the religious rituals while men contribute through drumming and instrumental music.

The temple stands on Rua de São Pantaleão in the Historic Center of São Luís, on a walled plot of about 1,500 m² with 660 m² built. The sacred come inside is kept closed and access requires respecting set requirements. Check in advance whether outsiders may enter.

The last initiation of a vodunsi-gonjaí took place in 1914, and those women died in the 1970s; the last vodunsi-he were initiated in the 1960s and died in the 2010s. Since the death of Dona Deni de Tói Lepon in 2015, the Dahomean voduns no longer dance here, and the house is run by the drummer Euzébio Pinto, grandson of Dona Amélia.