The Church of San Juan de la Cruz has also been known for a long time among Valencians as the Parish Church of San Andrés. It is located in Calle Poeta Querol and is considered both an Asset of Cultural Interest and a National Historic-Artistic Monument.

Historically it is of great importance because it was one of the first churches founded after the reconquest of James I, where a mosque was formerly erected.

However, the specific date of its current configuration is between 1602 and 1615, with the symbolic act of the laying of the first stone by the Patriarch and Archbishop of Valencia Juan de Ribera.

The building consists of a church with a single nave, with chapels located between the buttresses and a polygonal head.

The Church of Sant Joan de la Creu stands out on its main façade especially in the door, where most of the decorative elements are placed. Interestingly, the rest is a tiled wall on stone plinth with a balustrade with balls.

Formerly two small chapels were also opened on the sides. One of his arcosolios can still be seen today.

This striking doorway of the Church of San Juan de la Cruz, dates from the late seventeenth century and has Solomonic columns with side corbels on which it seems that two female figures are sliding.

In the upper ediculum you could see a sculpture of Saint Andrew that, unfortunately, only preserves the traces of his cross in the shape of a blade.

Inside the Church of Sant Joan de la Creu we can see its interesting rococo decoration, work made by Hipòlit Rovira and his disciple Luis Domingo towards the second half of the eighteenth century.

It is an elaborate decoration in which different shapes of angels, fabrics and vegetation are carved.



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Direcció:

Calle del Poeta Querol, 6
46002 Valencia

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Telephone: 963 52 41 57