It is a vast construction that has undergone intense modifications, since over three centuries various bodies have been added or stolen, and even in the seventies of the twentieth century, when part of its roof collapsed, it suffered a deep remodeling that has diminished the whole its original volumeic appearance. This church was the first to be founded in Tenerife and, therefore, in La Laguna, and the matrix from which all the others left. According to various written sources, based on the oral tradition, they collect on the site that was initially occupied, by the clergy who accompany the army of Alonso Ferndez de Lugo, the first party of the Corpus in Tenerife. But it was not until 1497 when the first factory of the church was built, whose creation coincided with the establishment of municipal institutions and the administrative organization following the termination of the conquest of Tenerife. The canary of the Canary Islands Fernand lvarez, upon receiving a land date on December 21, 1497, already qualifies as a priest of Tenerife , whose designation clearly indicates that on that date the church functioned as a regular parish. However, the location of the first temple does not coincide with the current one, since, as the lagoon historian Juan Nu ez de la Pea refers in 1677, the early church was located further up, towards the north, a stone's throw from where it is located today. At present there is no trait of the primitive factory, natural surrounding, since it is to be supposed that it was a construction made with a certain hurry and with materials of little resistance (mud, wood and roof of straw). It also seems that it was the Virgin of La Antigua who presided over the main altar of that church and perhaps it was a version of the image of the Candlemas representing the Purification of the Virgin. The dimensions of this first church must have been modest, but that was the first building of a certain consideration that was built in San Crist Bal de La Laguna and the only one for many years, so that up to 1505 served more than one instead of meeting place of the Island Council. The original location of the Church of Our Lady of La Concepci and the first population center in this area of the city could be motivated by the proximity of the lake, with a view to facilitating the supply of water, as well as being this area the highest topographically.
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