MexicoCity
.cdmx.gob.mx

--
--:--
☁️ --°
< Regresar

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.

226 - 240 of 261

The Old Basílica de Guadalupe: The Cristo Rey Expiatory Temple
The Old Basílica de Guadalupe: The Cristo Rey Expiatory Temple

Pin Esquina 5 de febrero Mina s/n, Col. Gustavo A. Madero.

Temples

The Pocito Chapel
The Pocito Chapel

Pin Plaza de las Américas 2, Villa Gustavo A. Madero, Gustavo A. Madero, 07050 Ciudad de México, CDMX

Temples

Valvanera Cathedral, San Charbel Chapel
Valvanera Cathedral, San Charbel Chapel

Pin República de Uruguay & Correo Mayor 65, Centro, 06000 CDMX

Temples

Antigua Parroquia de Indios
Antigua Parroquia de Indios

Pin Plaza de las Americas 2, Villa Gustavo A. Madero, 07050 CDMX

Temples

Barrio del Rosario Nepantlatlaca, Xochimilco
Barrio del Rosario Nepantlatlaca, Xochimilco

Pin Francisco I. Madero 10, El Rosario, Xochimilco, 16070 CDMX

Temples

Barrio San Cristóbal Xallan, Xochimilco
Barrio San Cristóbal Xallan, Xochimilco

Pin Las Flores 8, San Cristóbal, Xochimilco, 16080 CDMX

Temples

Barrio San Marcos Tlaltepetlalpan, Xochimilco
Barrio San Marcos Tlaltepetlalpan, Xochimilco

Pin Las Rosas 7, San Marcos, Xochimilco, 16050 CDMX

Temples

Basílica de San José y Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón
Basílica de San José y Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón

Pin Ayuntamiento 29, Colonia Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06050 CDMX

Temples

Capilla De El Calvario, Tlalpan
Capilla De El Calvario, Tlalpan

Pin Insurgentes Sur 3939, Pueblo Sta Úrsula Xitla, Alc. Tlalpan, 14420 CDMX

Temples

Capilla de Juramentos
Capilla de Juramentos

Pin Plaza de las Americas, Gustavo A. Madero 07050

Temples

Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco
Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco

Pin Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Col. Tlatelolco, Alc. Cuauhtémoc 06900 CDMX

Temples

Concepción Tequipeuhcan, Tepito
Concepción Tequipeuhcan, Tepito

Pin Tenochtitlan 111, col Morelos, Cuauhtémoc, 06200 CDMX

Temples

Iglesia de San Juan Bautista
Iglesia de San Juan Bautista

Pin Av. España s/n, Col. San Juan Tepenahuac.

Temples

Inmaculada Concepción Ixnahualtongo, Merced Balbuena
Inmaculada Concepción Ixnahualtongo, Merced Balbuena

Pin Cuitláhuac 46, Col. Merced Balbuena, Alc. Venustiano Carranza, 15810 CDMX

Temples

Las Merceditas: Templo de Belén
Las Merceditas: Templo de Belén

Pin Av Arcos de Belén 44, Doctores, Cuauhtémoc, 06720 CDMX

Temples