The most worshipped sanctuary in Malaga, was the Minimo's Sanctuary, founded in 1492 upon the remains of the Royal Chapel of Our Lady of the Victory, which church, at the end of the XVII century was in a very bad conditions due to the lack of money of the convent, to cover the cost of reconstruction works.
The generosity of the Count of Bellavista who offered the money for the reparation and enlargement of the church could have made possible the works, but, as the experts informed of the totally wreck of the walls and basements of the building, it was demolished in 1693 in order to build a new church upon its remains.
The Count of Buenavista invested quite a lot of money, the majority of his own fortune, in the construction of the arcade, the tower, the vestry, the niche for the image, a private pantheon and a communal one. This work was inaugurated in the year 1700.
The plat of the church is that of a Latin cross with a dome in the centre. but the most important part in the whole church, is the joint of the crypt-vestry-niche, which form a tower attached to the main church building.
The crypt, of square plant with quadruple central mounting is one of the most important and gloomy necrological confines in Spain, projecting the face of the death. in white clay, in all its symbolic manifestations.
Over the vestry and following the style of the crypt, it is the niche of Virgin of the Victory image, an octagonal piece of some 22 mts high covered with a profuse decoration of symbols and mirrors reflecting the image of Our Lady of the Victory, seated on her throne.