Church of Our Lady of La Palma

The Church of Our Lady of the Palm is a Roman Catholic church at the southwestern nook of the Plaza Alta in Algeciras, Spain. Listed as Bien de Interes Cultural by using the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 1992, just like the Spanish: Plaza Alta itself, it's miles, a vital metropolis landmark. The church is consecrated to Santa Maria de los angeles Palma seeing that Palm Sunday 1344 when Alfonso XI of Castile conquered the town after the Siege of Algeciras. That year, Pope Clement VI created the Diocese of Algeciras which was connected to that of Cadiz after he had converted the grand mosque of Algeciras, in accordance with Christian rites, right into a church.

That metropolis became, but, retaken with the aid of the Moors in 1368 and destroyed at the orders of Muhammed V of Granada.The Diocese of Algeciras disappeared with it. The church is the canonical seat of the Cofradía de Jesus Nazareno, Santo Cristo de los angeles Fe, Santa Cruz de Jerusalen y Maria Santisima de l. A. Amargura. At the occasion of the bicentenary of the church, Santa Maria de los angeles Palma changed into made co-consumer saint of Algeciras, with Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, in 1923 with the aid of Pope Pius XI.