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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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Cathedral of San Bernardino de Siena, Xochimilco
Cathedral of San Bernardino de Siena, Xochimilco

Pin Av. Guadalupe I. Ramírez, Santa Crucita, Xochimilco, 16070 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico

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Chapel & Plaza de la Soledad, San Juan Ixtayopan
Chapel & Plaza de la Soledad, San Juan Ixtayopan

Pin Segunda Cerrada, Río Ameca 2, La Soledad, San Juan Ixtayopan, Tláhuac, 13508 CDMX

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Chapel of Santa Cruz Atencopa, Iztacalco
Chapel of Santa Cruz Atencopa, Iztacalco

Pin Amado Nervo Esquina, Santa Cruz s/n, Santa Cruz, Iztacalco, 08910 CDMX

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Chapel of Santo Tomás, Actipan
Chapel of Santo Tomás, Actipan

Pin Calle Elefante 110, Col del Valle Centro, Benito Juárez, 03100 CDMX

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Chapel of the Assumption, Iztacalco
Chapel of the Assumption, Iztacalco

Pin Asunción 22, Barrio La Asunción, Alc. Iztacalco, 08600 CDMX

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Chapel of the Concepción and Cuepopan Plaza
Chapel of the Concepción and Cuepopan Plaza

Pin Belisario Domínguez s/n, Col. Centro.

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Chapel of the Third Order, Xochimilco
Chapel of the Third Order, Xochimilco

Pin Santa Crucita, Xochimilco, 16070 Mexico City

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Church Hospital de Jesus Nazareno
Church Hospital de Jesus Nazareno

Pin Avenida República de El Salvador, Av. 20 de Noviembre &, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06000 CDMX

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Church of Cristo Rey, Portales
Church of Cristo Rey, Portales

Pin Calzada de Tlalpan 1409, Col. Portales, Alc. Benito Juárez 03300 CDMX

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Church of María Reina, Unidad Independencia/San Jerónimo
Church of María Reina, Unidad Independencia/San Jerónimo

Pin Calle Pinos 13, Pblo San Jerónimo Aculco-Lidice, Alc. La Magdalena Contreras, 10100 CDMX

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Church of San Bernardo
Church of San Bernardo

Pin Av. 20 de Noviembre 33, Centro, Alc Cuauhtémoc, 06000 CDMX

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Church of San Gregorio Magno, Atlapulco
Church of San Gregorio Magno, Atlapulco

Pin Av. México 1, San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco, 16600 CDMX

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Church of Santa María Tepepan
Church of Santa María Tepepan

Pin Miguel Hidalgo s/n, Col. Tepepan.

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Church of Santiago Apóstol, Tepalcatlalpan
Church of Santiago Apóstol, Tepalcatlalpan

Pin Cuauhtémoc, Santiago Tepalcatlalpan, Xochimilco, 16200 CDMX

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Church of Santiago Tlatelolco
Church of Santiago Tlatelolco

Pin Plaza de las 3 Culturas, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas, Tlatelolco, Cuauhtemoc, 06990 CDMX

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