{"id":1587,"date":"2013-12-02T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T10:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.santjosep.net\/?post_type=portfolio&p=1587"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T10:34:10","slug":"es-cubells-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.santjosep.net\/en\/what-to-see\/heritage\/es-cubells-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Es Cubells Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row enable_hue_rotation=”no” enable_text_marquee=”no”][vc_column][vc_column_text]The origins of this church date back to 1855, when the exclaustrated Carmelite religious, Father Francesc Palau y Quer, established himself in this parish and asked Rome for the grace of a public oratory, as he considered that the inhabitants of the region were very far from the nearest one: that of Sant Josep de sa Talaia. Rome’s response was limited to the concession of a private oratory in his own house, which was inaugurated in 1864.<\/p>\n

The structure of this small temple consisted of a nave about eight metres deep and five metres wide by four metres high. For plenty of years masses were not held regularly, except when a priest visited it. It was inhabited by hermits who fed themselves from the produce of their work in the lands and orchards they worked. In 1867, the chapter vicar, Rafel Oliver Ribas, published the parish plan for Eivissa and Formentera (at that time Blessed Palau was no longer on the island), which foresaw the need to build a public oratory in this area. Thus, the original private chapel would eventually become the present church.<\/p>\n

Archduke Llu\u00eds Salvador made reference to this temple that same year: \u2018the church des Cubells, under the patronage of the Virgin Mary of Carmen, is a very sober building, similar to all those of its character and has three chapels with semicircular arches on each side of the nave, still without a roof\u2019 The church was provisionally converted into a parish temple in 1933 and definitively became a parish church in 1940. The work was finally completed in 1958. The titular image of the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel was blessed on 16th July 1941. The wooden tabernacle that was put in place in 1958 is the work of Rom\u00e1n y Salvador, as is the wooden altar below the image. The two chapels on either side of the presbytery belong to the old hermitage and are dedicated: one to the Holy Christ and the Dolorosa, and the other to the Heart of Jesus.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]