Church of the Third Order of Penitence of São Domingos de Osma, Salvador

Igreja da Ordem Terceira da Penitência de São Domingos de Osma , or Church and House of the Third Order of São Domingos , is an 18th-century Roman Catholic church in Salvador. The church is dedicated to Saint Dominic , a Castilian priest and founder of the Dominican Order . It belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia .

It occupies the northwest perimeter of the Terreiro de Jesus, in front of the Basilica Cathedral of Salvador. The church was listed as a historic structure by the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional in 1938.

The Church of the Third Order of Penitence of São Domingos was built in stone and lime masonry. It has two side buildings separated from the church by longitudinal aisles with tribunes at the top. Its main façade is decorated with sandstone vases and cymatium, has elements of the Rococo style and a tower ending in a bulb.

Inside it has a single monumental nave, a choir, novitiate, a main chapel and main altar, a sacristy, two side corridors, a room dedicated to Our Lady of Death ( Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte ), a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Death and other various rooms.

The room dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Morte now functions as an exhibition room for works of art, mainly statues of saints, from the church.

Antônio Mendes da Silva carved an elaborate altarpiece in the chancel between 1745 and 1748. The original baroque carving was replaced by neoclassical carving in 1873, by Joaquim Rodrigues de Farias. The richness of the Third Order is reflected in the elaborate decoration and use of jacaranda throughout the building. It has a massive circular staircase with a jacaranda wood railing and base, in Rococo style, which gives access to the upper floor, where the consistory, the choir, the tribunes of the chancel and nave are located, in addition to the secretariat room.