IGLESIA PARROQUIAL DE NUESTRA SEÑORA DE GUADALUPE

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Founded in the first half of the fifteenth century as a simple construction without windows and with seats formed by stone poles attached to the walls. Due to its older age, compared to those preserved, it records a long history of looting, fire and destruction that were contemplated by its titular image, a silent witness to the violent episodes to which the site was subjected.

As a result of so many fires and destruction the church was repeatedly rebuilt and embellished. Consolidated as such since the seventeenth century with three ships, it was burned again in 1909 and promptly rebuilt thanks to the town's alms. In 1914 Bishop Angel Marquina Corrales blessed the temple. In this last intervention, a tower prism was added to the tower to make it the highest architectural element of Teguise and religious pin of the island of Lanzarote.

The Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe is the parent church of Lanzarote, which in time is endowed with the most important ecclesiastical heritage in the insular area, and one of the most important in the region.

Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

GUIDE OF THE VILLA DETEGUISE. Historical Heritage Service of the Cabildo de Lanzarote. 2003

Address: A. Sebastian n Hern ndez Gutierrez y Mar to Antonia Perera Betancort

Drafting: Francisca Mar to Perera Betancort, Guacimara Batista Rivero, Mar to Antonia Perera Betancort and A.Sebasti n Hern ndez Guti rrez.

Photograph: Jos Farray, V deo Humer, Photographic Fund of the Historical Archive of Teguise and Historical Heritage Service of the Cabildo de Lanzarote.

LANZAROTE. RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE: Francisco J.Gal nte G mez. HE Insular Cabildo of Lanzarote. Publications Service, 1991

In the last reconstruction of the church, the lignary architectural elements were avoided, so that its coffered ceilings began to be rebuilt as half-point mamposter closures, as well as the altarpieces with an ecological style in their neo-ethical variant. The granite elements (piles of holy water, baptismal font, p lpito and part of the choir) were made by the local artist Juan Hern ndez P rez, while the altarpieces and the tornavoz of the ppito are due to the hand of Eugenio Ba disgust.

The separation between ships is done through pseudo-classical columns between which arches of half a point appear. The main facade of the church has a half-point door framed by a bishop. At the top two asses appear.

The door is made of wood, formed by two sheets of frames, in which vases appear in relief.

The roofs of the main buildings are supported on bdas of cann which, in turn, rest on circular pillars. The aisles have flat roof. In the reconstruction the wood was replaced by cement and plaster. Altars and choir are made of plaster, whistle of granite, jambs, cornices and architraves solved with basics or red ridge stone.