page_title: Iglesia de la Vera Cruz, Segovia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Iglesia de la Vera Cruz, Segovia / History
caption_attribution_description: Español: Iglesia de la Vera Cruz, Segovia, Castilla y León. En sus comienzos como del Santo Sepulcro. De principios del siglo XIII, origen incierto Templario o de la Orden del Santo Sepulcro, en la actualidad pertenece a la Orden de Malta. This is a photo of a monument indexed in the Spanish heritage register of Bienes de Interés Cultural under the reference RI-51-0000164.
context_page_description: The church of the True Cross is a Roman Catholic church located in the San Marcos district of the city of Segovia, in the autonomous community of Castile and León, in Spain. Formerly known as the Church of Holy Sepulchre, it is located to the north of the city, very close to the convent of San Juan de la Cruz, on the slope that ascends to Zamarramala, a town of which it was, for centuries, a parish church.
  It consists of a nave with a dodecagonal floor plan that surrounds a small central two-story shrine, to which apses and the tower were added. It is one of the best-preserved churches of this style in Europe. It was declared a Spanish Property of Cultural Interest on 4 July 1919.
context_section_description: The construction of this temple has traditionally been attributed to the Knights Templars, but it is now believed that it was the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem that carried out its construction and that it depended, as an encomienda, of the Collegiate church of Santa María la Mayor in Zamora.
  The temple was dedicated on 13 September 1208, as attested by the tombstone in front of the side door in the temple that narrates
  Let the founders of this temple be placed in the heavenly seat, and let those who have gone astray accompany them there. Dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. In the Idus of April, it was 1246 (transcription of the original in Latin).
  In 1531 and as a result of the unification of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre with the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, it became dependent on the Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta.
  To the original building was added an apse which is now used as a sacristy. Then, the tower, initially separated from the church, was added. Later, three apses were built, giving the church its today's appearance.
  In 1692 it ceased to be a parish of Zamarramala and the Virgen de la Paz, whose image made of stone in Romanesque style, presides over one of the apses, became the patron of the church.
  It was declared a Spanish Property of Cultural Interest by Royal Order on 4 July 1919. On 31 May 1951, the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta took possession of it again and is in charge of its conservation and custody.
caption: La iglesia de la Vera Cruz, en Segovia.
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