The Church of São Pedro (Portuguese: Igreja Paroquial de Ponta Delgada/Igreja de São Pedro) is a 17th-century church located in the civil parish of Ponta Delgada in the municipality of Santa Cruz das Flores, in the Portuguese island of Flores, in the archipelago of the Azores.
[1] But, by the 17th century, friar Agostinho de Montalverne indicated that this number had decreased to 150 homes, supporting a population of 650 inhabitants.
[1] The principal promoter of the construction was Father Francisco de Fraga e Almeida, a man of great fortune, old vicar and Ouvidor for the islands of Flores and Corvo.
[1] In 1764, he left behind a testament of 100$000 to the Confraria de São Pedro (Brotherhood of St. Peter) with an obligation to celebrate a mass for his soul, on the day of its inauguration.
[2] It is constructed in masonry stone, plastered and painted in white, except the soclo, cornerstones and frames of the windows, cornices, triumphal arch, pulpit and some decorate elements.
[2] The principal facade is framed by soclo with stonework and decorated with cornice where the triangular frontispiece sits, marked by an axial doorway and two windows at the level of the high-choir.
[2] The principal entrance to the church is protected by a wooden windbreak, surmounted by the high-choir supported by two pilasters in wood and corbels on the lateral walls.