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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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Señor de la Cuevita, Cathedral of Iztapalapa
Señor de la Cuevita, Cathedral of Iztapalapa

Pin Ermita Iztapalapa 1281, Col. El Molino Iztapalapa, Iztapalapa, 09810 CDMX

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Señor de la Expiración Chapel
Señor de la Expiración Chapel

Pin Plaza 23 de Mayo, Centro Histórico, Alc. Cuauhtémoc, 06010 CDMX

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Señor de la Humildad Chapel / Manzanares Chapel
Señor de la Humildad Chapel / Manzanares Chapel

Pin Manzanares #303, Col. Centro.

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Señor del Buen Despacho Church
Señor del Buen Despacho Church

Pin Adolfo Prieto s/n & Tlacoquemecatl, Col Del Valle, Benito Juárez, 03200 Ciudad de México

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Señor del Calvario Church & Cave Chapel
Señor del Calvario Church & Cave Chapel

Pin 15 de Septiembre 45, Culhuacán, Iztapalapa, 09800 CDMX

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Temple of Saint Augustine and Old National Library
Temple of Saint Augustine and Old National Library

Pin República del Salvador #76, Col. Centro.

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Temple of Saints Cosme and Damian, San Cosme
Temple of Saints Cosme and Damian, San Cosme

Pin Serapio Rendon 5, San Rafael, Cuauhtémoc, 06470 Ciudad de México, CDMX

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Temple of San Hipólito & San Casciano
Temple of San Hipólito & San Casciano

Pin Zarco 12, Col. Guerrero, Cuauhtémoc, 06300 CDMX

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Temple of San Lucas Tlaxopa
Temple of San Lucas Tlaxopa

Pin Av. Real San Lucas 54, Barrio San Lucas, Alc. Coyoacán, 04030 CDMX

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Temple of Santo Domingo
Temple of Santo Domingo

Pin Belisario Domínguez S/N, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06010 CDMX

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Templo de la Enseñanza: Nuestra Señora Del Pilar
Templo de la Enseñanza: Nuestra Señora Del Pilar

Pin Donceles 102, Centro Histórico, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06010 CDMX

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Templo de San Felipe de Jesús
Templo de San Felipe de Jesús

Pin Av Francisco I. Madero 11, Centro Histórico, Cuauhtémoc, 06000 CDMX

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Templo de Santa Inés
Templo de Santa Inés

Pin Moneda 26, Centro Histórico, Alc. Cuauhtémoc, 06000 CDMX

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Templo Santísimo Redentor, Cuauhtémoc
Templo Santísimo Redentor, Cuauhtémoc

Pin Río Poo 2, Cuauhtémoc, 06500 CDMX

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The Capilla del Cerrito de los Angeles
The Capilla del Cerrito de los Angeles

Pin Plaza de las Américas #1, Col. Villa de Guadalupe.

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