Parroquia Nuestra Señora de La Luz
The Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Luz anchors one of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria’s oldest devotional stories, tied directly to the island’s early Castilian landing at La Isleta. Tradition places the first Christian Mass on Gran Canaria in 1478 on these sands, celebrated by the conquerors “before” a primitive image of the Virgin of Light—Nuestra Señora la Virgen de la Luz, named Alcaldesa Honoraria of the city and patrona of the Puerto de la Luz. By 20 April 1552, a chapel is dated on this site, and a plan from 1559 confirms its early presence. That chapel was elevated to a parish on 29 September 1900, and work on the current neoclassical church began soon after under the bishop Pérez Muñoz and the parish priest López Cabezas. Construction finished in 1913 and the church was consecrated the following year. …
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