Iglesia de San Andrés Apóstol
The Iglesia de San Andrés Apóstol is a Catholic parish church whose origins reach back to the early years after Tenerife’s conquest. Between 1505 and 1510, Don Lope de Salazar built a chapel on this site and placed inside it two images: St. Andrew the Apostle and Saint Lucy. The chapel was dedicated to St. Andrew, and by 1520 it was known as “Nuestra Señora de Salazar.” A baptism took place here in 1619, and the building you enter today was later rebuilt on an earlier structure. Inside, the church preserves devotion through specific works of art, including an ancient wooden sculpture of St. Andrew, whose feast is celebrated on November 30, and a crucified Christ carved in 1882 from orange wood by a local sculptor who had suffered blindness—the Santo Cristo del Cegato—positioned at one side of the main altar. …
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