All Saints' Church, Puerto de la Cruz

The first Anglican communities arrivals in the Canary Islands and settled mainly in the cities of Puerto de la Cruz, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and to a lesser extent in Santa Cruz de La Palma.[1]

In Puerto de la Cruz, Anglican worship was originally held every Sunday at the home of the British Vice-Consul Peter Spence Reid, although he was a Presbyterian and a member of the Church of Scotland.[1]

In 1887 he founded the Taoro Company, which, in the same year, designated free land for the construction of an Anglican church. In November of that year the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Sierra Leone the Rt Revd Ernest Graham Ingham visited Puerto de la Cruz and formed a committee to implement the church building project.[1]

The church was built with money donated by foreign visitors and British residents in the city. The organ, the pulpit, stained glass windows, baptismal font and other items were private donations. For its part, the parsonage and the stained glass windows were gifts from Mary Boreham and other family members.[2] She was the widow of Walter Long Boreham who had died in 1890. The architectural style of the church is Gothic Revival architecture.

The Church of All Saints', Puerto de la Cruz, was the first Anglican church built in the Canary Islands.[2] Puerto de la Cruz also has the archipelago's oldest Anglican cemetery. In 1964 the Anglican Church fell under the Anglican Diocese of Gibraltar.[2]

Masses are held every Sunday at 9:30am (said) and 11:00am (sung), and on Wednesday at 9:30am (said).[2] The parish area of the Church of All Saints currently includes all of northern Tenerife, the metropolitan area of the island[2] and the island of La Palma. To the south of Tenerife is The Anglican Church of St Francis South Tenerife[2] in the municipality of Adeje.[3]

• Anglican Church of Puerto de la Cruz (in Spanish)
• http://www.allsaintstenerife.org/