San Francisco de Asís (monument)
San Francisco de Asís matters in Las Palmas because it preserves a working religious site inside one of the city’s earliest Franciscan foundations. The parish, founded in 1821, occupies the church of the old convent of san Francisco, built in 1518 by Pedro Llerena of Seville. That first church was lost in the attack on the city by the Dutchman Van der Does, after which the present building took shape with a distinctly Baroque stone doorway and a layout of three naves typical of churches in the archipelago. The archipelago-wide story continues in the craftsmanship: Juan Lucero worked there in 1635, and Juan Báez Marichal is noted in 1652. Decoration later received a major chapter through Gran Canaria artist José Arencibia Gil, whose projects ran from 1954 to 1961, including a 1961 mural for the main chapel. …
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