Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Socorro

The Patron of Tejeda is Our Lady of the Socorr or, the population celebrates the celebrations in its honor every 8 September in the surroundings of the hermitage that takes name of the virgin.

Every year the village of Tejeda comes back to this festival that consists of a pilgrimage that lasts all evening long to the sound of the rondallas and with innumerable carts. All the money is given to charities of the island of Gran Canaria, it is possible to taste the best products of the region and enjoy the typical costumes that all attendees wear.

The hermitage where Nuestra Señora del Socorro resides was built in 1931, has a particular eclectic style and was the work of Rafael Massanet and Fernando Navarro. The Hermitage settled in the same place where previously there was another chapel that was completely destroyed after a fire that took place in 1920.

The image of the Virgen de Nuestra Señora del Socorro is a carving work of the Arsenio de las Casas carver, it has a face similar to that of the Virgen del Rosario de Agüimes.