Iglesia de San José de Orosi (Church of Orosi)

The Iglesia de San José de Orosi is an 18th-century Spanish Colonial parish church located in the town of Orosi in the Orosi Valley of Cartago Province. Sources variously date its construction to the mid-18th century (one source gives 1743; another attributes construction to Franciscan friars in 1767), and it is repeatedly described as among Costa Rica's oldest colonial churches and as the oldest church in the country still in use. Built in traditional adobe form and retaining its colonial character, the church is part of a broader cluster of colonial ecclesiastical sites in the valley (for example, the nearby Ujarrás ruins) and is emphasized in travel and heritage literature as a must-see cultural landmark. The provided research notes contain no accounts of paranormal phenomena, named spirits, or hauntings associated with the site; descriptions focus on history, architecture, ongoing religious use, and tourism.