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Visit Iglesia de Santa María de Betancuria, Betancuria, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands
Iglesia de Santa María de Betancuria (Mother Church of the Conception) is the main parish of both the Villa de Betancuria and the entire island of Fuerteventura.
Its origins date back to 1410 when the Norman expeditionary Jean IV de Béthencourt ordered the construction of a temple that followed the parameters of the French Gothic style. The building would replace the small oratory, built at the time of the conquest and intended to house the image of the Virgin, brought by the conquerors. In it, the aborigines who survived the European arrival were also Christianized.
The parish of Betancuria was the third seat of a diocese in the Canary Islands (the ephemeral Bishopric of Fuerteventura), after that of Telde in Gran Canaria (1351) and San Marcial del Rubicón on the island of Lanzarote (1404), later transferred to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1483. Already in 1819 the fourth bishopric in the history of the Canary Islands was created, that of San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife, which today governs the western half of the archipelago . 3
On July 8, 2019, it was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest by the Government of the Canary Islands.
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