Iglesia de San Lucas, Toledo

Iglesia de San Lucas
Complete view of the church

The Iglesia de San Lucas is located in front of the Bu hill at southeast of the city of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. In a high wall, attached to the church, was located the old parish cemetery, where it is told that the last Mozarabs of the city were buried.[1]

Most probably it was built in Mozarab style in the 12th-century,[2] in the 17th-century a Baroque chapel was added to it housing the Virgen de Esperanza.

The church is cited in a poem attributed to St. Ildefonsus, according to it was erected in 641 by Evancio, a son of Nicholas, who married Blesila and who were the grandfathers of St. Ildefonsus..[1] This fact can not be confirmed and it could even be a mosque adapted as a Christian church, due to the irregular arrangement of the south wall and the asymmetry of the immediate nave of the epistle.[1]

The church was one of the Mozarab churches of Toledo that had privilege to maintain this rite after the Reconquista.

References

  1. 1 2 3 santasjustayrufina.org. "Parroquia de San Lucas".
  2. ↑ architoledo.org. "La parroquia de San Lucas".

Coordinates: 39°51′15″N 4°01′14″W / 39.8543°N 4.0206°W / 39.8543; -4.0206

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