It is the first parish in the village and stands near one of the oldest wards, S’Ulumu. The first news about the church dates back to 1553, the year of the pastoral visit of the Archbishop of Sassari Salvator Alepus to the villa of “Itari de Canedo.” The building has three naves, a central one with a barrel vault supported by six large round arches and two side naves of modest width with nine chapels over which rise wooden altars. Work on the building and bell tower was completed in 1775, as noted in the epigraph on a plaque placed in the masonry of the bell tower. From the second half of the nineteenth century and in later times, repeatedly, maintenance and restoration works had to be carried out that engaged local workers in major works to restore the building’s state of decay. The present trachyte façade is the work of the remodeling initiated in 1881 by architect Salvatore Calvia of Mores. Also of fine local craftsmanship are the three iron gates referable to 1910.
