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Temples

Just about any landscape in Mexico will include a church, often as its most striking feature. Mexico City Temples and Churches—and religious architecture more generally—will take a lifetime to really discover.

Invaded at the height of the European Counter-Reformation, the evangelization of the Americas was always among the most controversial and deepest parts of the Spanish conquest. It's proven to be among the longest lasting. For good or ill, today's inhabitants of Mexico City live, not just in the shadow of a historical conquest, but amongst many of the most striking and original examples of that culture's art, architecture, and building.

Nearly every church in the city is a treasure trove of art. Painting, sculpture, design, carving - even what are today called installations - make up a deep part of the psyche and the look and feel of Mexico City culture. And the buildings themselves, perhaps only most obviously, display techniques, styles, and forms that reflect every aspect of Spain's own complicated relationship with history, occupation, and even colonialism.

"Mexican Baroque" is today a catch all term for the Baroque that arrived here, divided, split and rejoined and formed new styles while celebrating their predecessors. Churrigueresque shares space on the same pages of historians who will insist that it's the "Ultra Baroque." Hardly a church exists in Mexico City that will be called a pure reflection of one style or another. Eclectic is just the first in a long list of words to describe influences from the Moorish to the French to the neo-Classicists and the anti-neo-Classicists.

The best 20th-Century religious architecture is here.

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Acopilco Church and Town Center
Acopilco Church and Town Center

Pin Leandro Valle #42, Col. San Lorenzo Acopilco.

Towns/Neighborhoods

Amaxalco Oratory
Amaxalco Oratory

Pin Tlalpan Centro II, Tlalpan, 14000 CDMX

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Asunción de María, Tepalcatitlán, Industrial
Asunción de María, Tepalcatitlán, Industrial

Pin Av Necaxa 100, Col. Industrial, Alc. Gustavo A. Madero, 07800 CDMX

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Barrio Belem de Acampa
Barrio Belem de Acampa

Pin Nezahualcóyotl 70, Belem de Acampa, Xochimilco, 16070 CDMX

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Barrio La Asunción Colhuacatzinco, Xochimilco
Barrio La Asunción Colhuacatzinco, Xochimilco

Pin Calle Ilhuicamina, La Asunción, Xochimilco, 16040 Ciudad de México, CDMX

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Barrio La Concepción Tlacoapa, Xochimilco
Barrio La Concepción Tlacoapa, Xochimilco

Pin Cjon. Emiliano Zapata 51, Pzla. de Tlacoapa, Tlacoapa, Xochimilco, 16000 CDMX

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Barrio La Guadalupita Xochitenco, Xochimilco
Barrio La Guadalupita Xochitenco, Xochimilco

Pin Ahuehuetes 18, La Guadalupita, Xochimilco, 16740 CDMX

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Barrio La Luz Chapel, Villa Milpa Alta
Barrio La Luz Chapel, Villa Milpa Alta

Pin Avenida Principal, Barrio La Luz, Villa Milpa Alta, Milpa Alta, 12000 CDMX

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Barrio La Santísima Trinidad Chililico, Xochimilco
Barrio La Santísima Trinidad Chililico, Xochimilco

Pin Cjon. Infantil, Barrio La Santísima, Alc. Xochimilco, 16080 CDMX

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Barrio San Antonio Molotla, Xochimilco
Barrio San Antonio Molotla, Xochimilco

Pin Esquina Matamoros, Chilalpa 29, San Antonio, Xochimilco, 16000 CDMX

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Barrio San Diego Tlalcozpan, Xochimilco
Barrio San Diego Tlalcozpan, Xochimilco

Pin Prol. Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez 156, San Diego, Xochimilco, 16080 Ciudad de México, CDMX

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Barrio San Esteban Tecpanpan, Xochimilco
Barrio San Esteban Tecpanpan, Xochimilco

Pin Plaza San Esteban 5, San Esteban, Xochimilco, 16080 CDMX

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Barrio San Francisco Caltongo, Xochimilco
Barrio San Francisco Caltongo, Xochimilco

Pin Callejón la Gloria s/n, Col. Barrio de San Francisco Caltongo.

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Barrio San Lorenzo Tlaltecpan, Xochimilco
Barrio San Lorenzo Tlaltecpan, Xochimilco

Pin Calle Adelaida 28, Barrio San Lorenzo, Alc. Xochimilco, 16040 CDMX

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Barrio San Pedro Tlalnahuac, Xochimilco
Barrio San Pedro Tlalnahuac, Xochimilco

Pin Esq. Calle Cuitlahuac, Calle Pedro Ramírez del Castillo 12, San Pedro, Xochimilco, 16090 CDMX

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