Case file · Sacred site
Terreiro do Gantois
Ilê Iyá Omi Axé Iyamassê, known as the Gantois, was founded in Salvador in 1849 by Maria Júlia da Conceição Nazaré. It is one of the oldest Ketu Candomblé houses in Bahia.
1849 CE · -13.01, -38.51 · status: account
The account
Its best-known leader, Mãe Menininha do Gantois (1894–1986), led it for 64 years and became a national figure. The anthropologist Ruth Landes described it in 'The City of Women' (1947). The house was listed as national heritage in 2002.
Connections in the atlas
- Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá
- Casa das Minas, São Luís
- The Malê revolt and its protective amulets
- Casa Branca do Engenho Velho listed as heritage
- Zélio de Moraes and the birth of Umbanda
- Festa de Iemanjá, Rio Vermelho