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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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San Joaquín de Tacuba, Temple and Monastery
San Joaquín de Tacuba, Temple and Monastery

Pin Santa Cruz Cacalco 15, San Joaquín, Miguel Hidalgo, 11260 CDMX

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San Jorge Orthodox Cathedral
San Jorge Orthodox Cathedral

Pin Tuxpan 30, Col Roma Sur, Alc. Cuauhtémoc, 06760 CDMX

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San José de Gracia
San José de Gracia

Pin Mesones 139, Centro Histórico, Alc. Cuauhtémoc, 06090 CDMX

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San José de las Palmas, Lomas
San José de las Palmas, Lomas

Pin Av. Paseo de las Palmas 1805, Col. Lomas de Chapultepec, Alc. Miguel Hidalgo, 11000 CDMX

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San José del Altillo Chapel
San José del Altillo Chapel

Pin Av. Universidad 1700, Santa Catarina, Coyoacán, 04010 CDMX

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San Josemaría Escrivá, Zedec Santa Fe
San Josemaría Escrivá, Zedec Santa Fe

Pin Joaquín Gallo 101, Col. Zedec Santa Fé, Alc. Álvaro Obregón, 01219 CDMX

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San Juan Bautista Tlacateco, Tacubaya
San Juan Bautista Tlacateco, Tacubaya

Pin Becerra 18, Tacubaya, Miguel Hidalgo, 11870 CDMX

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San Juan Bautista Tlateuhchi, Xochimilco
San Juan Bautista Tlateuhchi, Xochimilco

Pin Plazuela San Juan, San Juan, Xochimilco, 16000 CDMX

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San Juan Crisóstomo, Aragón
San Juan Crisóstomo, Aragón

Pin Calle Hidalgo, Pueblo de San Juan de Aragón, Alc. Gustavo A. Madero, 07950 CDMX

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San Juan Mixcoac (Malinaltongo) & Plaza Gómez Farias
San Juan Mixcoac (Malinaltongo) & Plaza Gómez Farias

Pin Augusto Rodin 330, Col. Extremadura Insurgentes, Alc. Benito Juárez, 03740 CDMX

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San Juan Tlilhuaca, Azcapotzalco
San Juan Tlilhuaca, Azcapotzalco

Pin Calle Federico Gamboa 7, Col. San Juan Tlihuaca, Alc. Azcapotzalco, 02400 CDMX

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San Lorenzo Diácono y Mártir, Centro Histórico
San Lorenzo Diácono y Mártir, Centro Histórico

Pin Belisario Domínguez 28, Centro Histórico Cuauhtémoc, 06010 CDMX

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San Lorenzo Huipulco
San Lorenzo Huipulco

Pin San Lorenzo 5, Huipulco, Tlalpan, 14370 CDMX

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San Lorenzo Tlacoyucan
San Lorenzo Tlacoyucan

Pin Insurgentes 10, Villa Milpa Alta, San Lorenzo Tlacoyucan, Milpa Alta, 12500 CDMX

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San Lorenzo Xochimanca Chapel
San Lorenzo Xochimanca Chapel

Pin Manzanas S/N, Tlacoquemecatl del Valle, Benito Juárez, 03200 CDMX

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