Case file · Sacred site
Casa Branca do Engenho Velho listed as heritage
In 1984 Brazil's heritage institute IPHAN listed Ilê Axé Iyá Nassô Oká, the Casa Branca do Engenho Velho in Salvador, as national heritage. It was the first Afro-Brazilian temple to be protected this way.
1984 CE · -13.00, -38.50 · status: official
The account
The terreiro traces its origin to the 1830s and is considered the mother house of Ketu Candomblé, from which the Gantois and Opô Afonjá descend. The listing was a landmark against the persecution of Afro-Brazilian religions.
Connections in the atlas
- Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá
- The Malê revolt and its protective amulets
- Luzia Pinta, calundu healer of Sabará
- Terreiro do Gantois