Mosteiro (Lajes das Flores)
| Mosteiro | |
| Civil Parish | |
| Official name: Freguesia do Mosteiro | |
| Name origin: Portuguese for monastery | |
| Country |  Portugal |
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| Region |  Azores |
| Island | Flores |
| Municipality | Lajes das Flores |
| Localities | Caldeira, Mosteiros |
| Rivers | Ribeira do Mosteiro, Ribeira dos Ladrões |
| Center | Mosteiro |
| - elevation | 279 m (915 ft) |
| - coordinates | 39°24′46.4″N 31°15′.6″W / 39.412889°N 31.250167°WCoordinates: 39°24′46.4″N 31°15′.6″W / 39.412889°N 31.250167°W |
| Highest point | Bugio |
| - location | Rocha dos Bordões |
| - elevation | 599 m (1,965 ft) |
| - coordinates | 39°24′9″N 31°14′0″W / 39.40250°N 31.23333°W |
| Lowest point | Sea level |
| - location | Atlantic Ocean |
| - elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Area | 5.99 km2 (2 sq mi) |
| - urban | .01 km2 (0 sq mi) |
| Population | 43 (2011) |
| Density | 7/km2 (18/sq mi) |
| Settlement | 1676 |
| - Parish | 1860 |
| - Civil Parish | 13 January 1898 |
| LAU | Junta Freguesia |
| - location | Largo José de Freitas Silva |
| - coordinates | 39°24′47″N 31°15′2″W / 39.41306°N 31.25056°W |
| President Junta | Nélia Maria Freitas Tenente Tavares (PS) |
| President Assembleia | Francisco Tavares (PS) |
| Timezone | Azores (UTC-1) |
| - summer (DST) | Azores (UTC0) |
| Postal Zone | 9960-630 |
| Area Code & Prefix | (+351) 292 XX XX XX |
| Demonym | Mosteirense |
| Patron Saint | Santíssima Trindade |
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| Website: http://www.cmlajesflores.com/mosteiro/mosteiro.htm | |
| Geographic detail from CAOP (2010) produced by Instituto Geográfico Português (IGP) | |
Mosteiro is the smallest civil parish in the municipality of Lajes das Flores on the Portuguese island of Flores, in the archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 43, in an area of 5.99 square kilometres (2.31 sq mi).
Its toponymy has been debated by historians, although some theories suggest that it was named for the comparable civil parish on the island of São Miguel. The first colonists, motivated to settle here by a man named João Soares, were settlers from the region of Mosteiros, renaming this zone in its honour.
In 1676, the locality of Mosteiro was de-annexed from the parish of Lajes das Flores and included in the ecclesiastical parish of the Fajãs, with its seat in the parish of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios da Fajanzinha.
The adventurer António de Freitas, former seminarian, had emigrated to China, where he made his fortune. Returning from his life in the Far East in 1846, he ordered the construction of the Parochial Church of Mosteiro, in the invocation of the Holy Trinity, in gratitude for God's intervention in saving his possessions during the trip.
In 1850, Mosteiro was elevated to parish, along with Caldeira, on the completion of the parochial church. As related by Francisco Gomes, "at the time of the erection of the parish it was decently ornamented, and provided with vestments, and other objects necessary for the Divine Cult". During this period, the parish included a 90 homes, including 300 habitantes. As Father José António Camões, wrote after describing the bridge of Sargo, he also referred to the small port of Mosteiro "where tragically three or four boats capsized...the small port is part of a small community called "Os Mosteiros", and indicate the existence [sic?] of two ravines, the "Ribeira do Mosteiro" and "Ribeira dos Ladrões" (or Fundão) that ends the district of the parish of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios and Nossa Senhora do Rosário of Lajes". The same historian referred to a population of 31 homes, including 83 men and 92 women, noting: "There a eight tiled houses, and not a man who wears shoes. There is a twenty-year judge with scribe, subject to the jurisdiction of the town of Lajes. The ordinance soldiers of the village are subordinate to the 2nd company in the villa of Lajes."
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