The project is part of the rebuild operation after the earthquake, which succumbed in July 1998 the islands of Pico and Faial, including the collapse of the old Chapel of Almagreira - a property of the 70 deployed in the middle of this community, without much conceptual quality or constructive, that maybe it never established an emotional bond with the inhabitants.

As urban preexisting, the place of Almagreira draws in a unique street layout, integrating perpendicular linear plant rooms facing the east. In this context, urban rule was already dictated. And the panorama place enacted else: a temple for a meeting with about 80 people, frankly open to the sea, to the mountain of Pico and of course to the community itself. The nave (7x7x21m) is asymmetrical Latin cross plan: the largest arm, a small sacristy adjoining the Altar and in the lower arm, one in exposed concrete window that breaks the facade. On the Altar, the axismundi marked by a suspended concrete volume.

The asymmetry of the building is enhanced further by a belfry deployed in the far east of the plot of land, next to the street layout.

The design of the elements of the altar and the congregation (tabernacle, ambo, the chairs of the presidency and the banks of the meeting) uses a coherent language with the space of the altar itself, which was designed in a "wooden box", and with the screen.

Despite the rational aspect of this work was intended to explore the side of intuition or even the transcendental side, also evident in the altarpiece in wood of Artur Amaro and the metaphors entered in the tabernacle in bronze of Pedro Cabrita Reis.