The church of Santo Tomé or Santo Tomás Apóstol is located in the historic center of the city of Toledo and was founded after the reconquest of this city by King Alfonso VI of León. It appears cited in the 12th century, as built on the site of an old mosque from the 11th century. At the beginning of the 14th century, due to being in a dilapidated state, it was completely rebuilt by Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo, Lord of Orgaz, and the old minaret of the mosque was transformed into a Mudejar-style bell tower.
The building consists of three naves with a transept, covered by barrel vaults and a polygonal apse. The main chapel has a mixture of Mudejar and flamboyant Gothic; The temple has a central dome in the shape of an eight-pointed star with painted ribs.
On the gospel side, near the main altar, a door leads to the entrance to the bell tower and from there you can go up by means of a staircase.
The church has in its chapels two Baroque altarpieces, one of them Plateresque, and a baptismal font from the 16th century.
At the foot of the nave corresponding to the epistle side, in the so-called Chapel of La Concepción, the famous painting by El Greco called “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz” is exhibited, an oil on canvas measuring 4.80 x 3, 60 meters, painted in the Mannerist style by the painter between 1586 and 1588.
