Close to San Bartholomew (San Esteban Church)/ What to see close to La Judería del Buen Viaje

 

This temple was built on what was an old mosque, presenting three naves with an apse. On the outside, the church has two magnificent ogival stone portals, flared and with archivolts. The most artistic, is located at the foot of the church, and has beautiful images on columns under a canopy and a magnificent body of polylobed blind arches with sebka cloth topped by a fine row of horses carved in stone in the shape of lion's heads. The other, located on the side of the epistle, where the line of diamond points stands out in its interior arc. The date of these covers is estimated at the beginning of the 15th century.

Three longitudinal brick naves, the central one wider and taller than the lateral ones, separated by tall brick pillars on which the pointed arches support the wooden coffered ceiling and Mudejar-style roof. And as usual in this type of church, the presbytery, where the main chapel is located, is deep and topped with a polygonal apse, and is covered with a stone vault divided into sections by Gothic ribs.

The tower, attached to the front of the Epistle nave, is the product of several restorations. Built at the end of the 17th century by Juan Gómez, it suffered the effects of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, then rebuilt according to a project by Pedro de Silva in 1758 and executed by his son Andrés.

Inside, altarpieces, images and canvases of great artistic, historical and cultural value are preserved, attributed to important artists such as Miguel Polanco and Zurbarán.

As a curiosity to indicate that the painter Valdés Leal was baptized in it.

In this temple lies the "Fervorous Brotherhood and Brotherhood of Nazarenes of Nuestro Padre Jesús de la Salud y Buen Viaje, María Santísima de los Desamparados, San Juan de Ribera and Protomartir San Esteban", which was established in 1928, leaving for the first time time in 1929. The other Brotherhood, of glory in this case, that resides in the temple, is the "Ancient, Royal and illustrious Brotherhood of Our Lady of Light". It was founded in the 18th century, although there is evidence that it already existed in 1670, since its primitive rules date from 1677. It merged in the 18th century with the Sacramental and the Souls. It has always been under the patronage of the Dukes of Medinaceli, and during the works of the temple it has always been welcomed in the palace chapel. This Brotherhood has sometimes organized the procession of the Risen One, before the current brotherhood of the same name was established. In the parade the Virgin was accompanying an effigy of Christ. Currently its party and procession is celebrated in September