Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador, Cathedral in Centro Histórico, San Salvador, El Salvador.

Catedral Metropolitana del Divino Salvador del Mundo faces Plaza Barrios on the site of the old Temple of Santo Domingo. Its facade, stripped of Fernando Llort's 2,700-tile mural in 2012, frames a shrine to the Divine Saviour sculpted by Friar Francisco Silvestre García in 1777. The main altar holds a 1546 image donated by Emperor Charles V beneath a four-column baldachin, with a Churrigueresque cupola 148 feet high above.

The first cathedral, elevated in 1842 under Pope Gregory XVI, was destroyed by the 1854 earthquake; a wooden successor completed in 1888 burned on 8 August 1951. The present concrete structure with exposed brick and iron buttresses stood unfinished for four decades, its completion deferred by Archbishop Óscar Romero to fund projects for the poor. It was inaugurated on 19 March 1999.

The facade frames a shrine to the Divine Saviour of the World, a sculpture by Friar Francisco Silvestre García from 1777; the patron's image also stands on the main altar, donated by Emperor Charles V in 1546. Pilgrims come to the tomb of Archbishop Óscar Romero, and Pope John Paul II knelt there in 1983 and 1996.

The cathedral faces the north side of Plaza Barrios, with the National Palace along the square's eastern edge. The tomb of Óscar Romero draws pilgrims, and the front steps are where 24 demonstrators were killed on May 9, 1979. Visitors should dress respectfully, as Masses and Romero's Sunday services still fill the nave.

Beneath the main floor lies a crypt containing two chapels and multiple niches holding the remains of bishops and other notable citizens of El Salvador. This underground space serves as a quiet place of remembrance and shows how the cathedral has been central to the city's most important figures across generations.