Nuestra Señora del Rosario

Located in the nerve center of Puerto del Rosario, is the Nuestra Señora del Rosario parish church. This place of worship is one of the emblems of the capital of Fuerteventura, located between Calle León Castillo, Virgen del Rosario and the pedestrian crossing Primero de Mayo, also adjoining the Cabildo de Fuerteventura and the Government Delegation.

In Puerto del Rosario is a must-see, the church began to be built at the beginning of the 19th century, but it was not finished until 1932, after finishing the work it remained as it was Today is known.

Temple history begins in 1812 when the vice-consul of Fuerteventura, James Miller as he was called, Diego Miller Seroton, requested a license to the bishopric for the creation of a chapel or a place to pray. They enabled a room that was attended by a clergyman to lead the mass, this was the provisional temple. A few years passed the Bishop undertook to build a new temple and finally it was in the 1920s when the church works began in what is now known as Plaza de Nuestra Señora del Rosario.

Due to the successive plagues and famines that devastated the island the project was modified, in principle it was had intention to build two bell towers wavering a curved gable but finally it was rejected.

Until many years after the creation of the Board for the Enlargement and Repair of the Temple in 1929 the works that ended in 1932 were not retaken. The temple has a rectangular plan , of a single ship and roof to two waters and the plebistry differentiated in height to 4 waters.

The Interior is covered by a wooden structure, the altarpiece is a reproduction of what was previously.The central part is occupied by the image of Our Lady of the Rosary of the 19th century, there are other images like San José with the child and San Luis de Gonzaga. The church was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in 1990.