The temple of María Auxiliadora, with its facades facing Hospital Street and Paseo Marítimo, is of great exterior prestige and is entirely built in reinforced concrete, with corner parts and grooves that imitate granite, evidencing on the outside the great interior capacity that have. The impressive building owes its project to Antonio Cominges, an architect influenced by the style of those who made the Valley of the Fallen, having been solemnly blessed by Cardinal Quiroga Palacios in December 1959; Major renovation works were carried out on it in the late 1990s. Its main façade is preceded by a small gated atrium, accessed through a graceful three-arched porch. Above it, quite high, is the rose window and higher still a niche with the image of Mary Help of Christians. On both sides, two twin projecting areas, imitating towers, rise up to end in individual pinnacles, but without bells; On the central body there is only a small belfry topped by the cross that fulfills this function.
The interior of the church has a single nave, of notable length and height, divided into several sections by slender pilasters that rise and support a ceiling of large coffered ceilings, ending in a presbytery housed in the neo-Romanesque style apse with illuminated windows. leaded, although it is currently integrated into a later building; in 1991 it was remodeled by the Coruña architect Fernández Albalat, who improved it significantly. On the side walls, with a beautiful red marble plinth, there are also windows with colored leaded stained glass, which represent biblical scenes of the Rosary. The series has sixteen stained glass windows in an eclectic style and was made by the Maumegean House of Irún.
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