President Vargas Avenue: mapping of religious sociability spaces disappeared in urban interventions at Rio de Janeiro city, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Vilas Boas, Naylor
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Andreatta, Verena, Martinelli, Francesca, Araujo, Talita Simão Luiz
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Labor & Engenho (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/labore/article/view/8671580
• topic: Avenida Presidente Vargas; Intervenções urbanas; Espaços religiosos; Estado novo; Avenida Presidente Vargas; Urban interventions; Religious spaces; New state; Avenida Presidente Vargas; Intervenciones urbanas; Espacios religiosos; Nuevo estado

During the dictatorial period of the Brazilian Estado Novo (1937-1945) there were several urban interventions in the city of Rio de Janeiro, then capital of the Federal District. An analysis of the impact of these interventions, which substantially modified the route and the course of expansion of the city, is still little present in the historiography, since they are not part of the modern urban memory of the city. This erasure, resulting from the censorship of the period, among other aspects, is also reflected today in the absence of information about the population deprived of their places. This article addresses the urban transformations that took place in the period and, from the point of view of religion, aims to map the spaces of sociability that disappeared with the opening of Presidente Vargas Avenue, one of the interventions of the period. As a methodology, an approach through the literature on Rio de Janeiro is complemented by research in primary sources in search of reports that allow placing such information in the urban space. The mapping reveals the presence of religious spaces that have disappeared beyond the Catholic faith with the opening of the Avenue and allows the creation of a database that can be associated with the city's historical maps.