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Our Lady of the Rosary Church

Diputación de Málaga
Iglesia Ntra.Sra.del Rosario, Faraján

Our Lady of the Rosary Church

This church was built in the early 16th century (1505), subsequently renovated in the 18th and completely rebuilt in the middle of this century.

It comprises a single nave with a flat roof. The Epistle side features an arris vault with plasterwork adornments.

All we know of the early church of Faraján is that in the war against the Moors in the late sixteenth century, the captain of the royal troops, Don Alvaro de Luna, sacked the church altarpieces dismantled the altar and transporting them to the backs of horses until Huetor-Tajar people in Granada.

At the end of the sixteenth (1581), seventeen (1680) and eighteen (1767) centuries there were several earthquakes in Malaga and around this area, which caused the collapse of one of the two towers of the church, carrying out its restructuring, a major work it was thought to be the final one. This is corroborated by the fact that the main door of the church is now in the northeast, while the southeast side direction is clearly the great arch of Nazari bricks (now whitewashed), which it would undoubtedly be the original main entrance.

In 1933 as stipulated by a plaque at the entrance to the Church, the marriage of Don Antonio Federico Ruiz Sierra, natural from Faraján and living in Malaga, together with his wife Doña Aurelia Guiara Picasso (cousin of famous painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso), coasted the reconstruction of the Church. Between this works it was the rebuilt of the Mudejar style tower of the church. This tower was named for Frederiquito Sierra, in memory of this young man (son of previous marriage) who died earlier in 1918 due to the bubonic plague and tuberculosis. They also purchased and donated land adjacent to the church cemetery which has been in use until 1974.

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