Iglesia de Santa Lucía

Monument

Frailes

Sierra Sur

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It owes its origin, like so many other churches, to a hermitage. In 1550, Pedro de Valencia, built it at his own expense, on a site that he acquired from Bartolomé Fernández de Montemolín and paid for the image of Santa Lucía. The teacher, Manuel García del Álamo, built the altarpiece of the Rosary, now missing. In 1778, shortly before it was erected as a parish, the baptismal font was brought from the Alcalá de la Mota church. Three years later the devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows was consolidated.

In the century of the great reforms (XVIII), the friar church became a help to the parish of Santa María la Mayor, Alcalá la Real (1778). New works were made by the master Jacinto Pérez, which consisted of lengthening the nave and building a main chapel that there was not.

Church of Santa Lucia | Views
In the second half of the 19th century, the church was dedicated to the Virgen de los Dolores and the dimensions of the building were not enough for the number of residents. It had an altarpiece made up of several paintings and presided over by a carved image of La Dolorosa, attributed to José de Mora. In the nave there were only three altars. From this period was the wooden door with a keystone, dated 1852.

At the end of the twentieth century and with the help of the parish priest Alberto Jaime Martínez Pulido, the reform that we can contemplate today was carried out, maintaining the old elements, but with projection to the new millennium. From this stage is the magnificent coffered ceiling that was made in Atarfe (Granada) in the 'Los Tres Juanes' workshop.

Among the oldest elements, the bell tower still stands out, with three bells bearing the sonorous names of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, San Rafael and Virgen de las Mercedes.

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