Church of San Antonio de Padua

The church of San Antonio de Padua of Frigiliana, explains Pablo Pastor, "was instituted in 1505, at the request of Queen Isabella, under the patronage of Santa Maria, by order of the then Archbishop of Seville and Metropolitan of Malaga the Dominican Fray Diego de Deza, according to Bull of Pope Innocent VIII and confirmed later, in 1510, by Pope Julius II. Probably the primitive mosque, converted into a Christian temple, was initially used. In 1630, Philip IV granted the county of Frigiliana to Don Iñigo Manrique de Lara, governor of the castle and citadel, building his palace in this town in 1640. It is by initiative of these nobles the suffrage of the construction of this church, on the old hermitage. Bernardo de Godoy, master builder of the factories of the bishopric, who, at the end of 1617, will build the churches of Igualeja and Frigiliana. The promoter of both actions was the Dominican bishop Fray Alonso de Santo Tomás, whose coat of arms is on the access doorway". Built in Mudejar style, it initially had a central nave and a nave on the epistle side, as well as the tower, which was a body less in height than the current one, where the bells were located. In the central nave, higher and wider than the lateral ones, it emphasizes its wooden armor of knot and battlement, with tie suspenders that support in corbels or canes, the lateral nave of smaller height, is covered with simple wooden armor of hanging, in its walls niches are opened to lodge images. On the last brace of the central nave next to the façade is the legend: "Bernardo de Godoy Maestro Maior me fesi desde cimientos año de 1676 años". In 1779 the enlargement of the church was authorized, where its current more baroque interior appearance is configured, as well as the detailed actions, which can now be seen more clearly.