The Church of the Immaculate Conception in San Cristóbal de La Laguna was the first parish established in Tenerife. The conqueror Alonso Fernández de Lugo established the site after the Corpus Christi feast in 1496. The infobox gives 1511 as the completion date, and the text gives the same year as the founding. The article names no architect.
The style is described as Colonial of the Canary Islands, and a photo caption mentions a carved wooden ceiling. The tower holds the largest bell in the Canary Islands, and visitors can climb it for views of the city.
It is a Roman Catholic parish and home to numerous brotherhoods. It was declared a site of cultural interest, in the National Historic Monument category, in 1948.
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