Buildings hold stories, but those who built them are the ones who tell them. Mañungo, a Chilote carpenter, narrates through his notebooks the cultural, identity-defining, and architectural history of 12 rural communities in the archipelago of Chiloé. Through ethnographic research, the study reveals the attributes and qualities of the churches belonging to these territories and their connection to the lives of their inhabitants.
The research, titled “The Greatness of Twelve Small Churches in Rural Chiloé: Next Pilgrimage to UNESCO,” led by architects Constantino Mawromatis, Antonio Sahady, and Carlos Hevia, was developed within the framework of the National Fondart for Architecture research category. It reveals the heritage value of a dozen temples belonging to the Chilote school of wooden religious architecture, alongside the craft of traditional carpentry, religious rites, a sense of community, and a deep-rooted connection to the land.
