Iglesia de San José
The Iglesia de San José is a Catholic parish church that was formally elevated to parish rank in 1964, when it separated from the church of San Juan Bautista in the casco of San Juan de la Rambla. You can see its civic role in the way it’s set on Plaza Domingo Reyes Afonso, anchoring the community around it. Architecturally, it’s a rectangular building covered by four-sided “tejas árabes”—a roof form associated with Mediterranean building traditions in the Canary Islands. The main façade presents a half-point stone arch over the entrance, framed by pilasters, and it’s topped at the façade’s vertex by a stone espadaña with its own half-point arch. Daylight enters through four small side windows and a claraboya above the choir. …
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