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The Baroque façade, domes and twin bell towers of Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.
The façade, domes and bell towers. Photo: ProtoplasmaKid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Place · Cathedral

Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

Cathedral built in sections from 1573 to 1813 on the former Aztec sacred precinct, beside the Templo Mayor.

Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Building
Cathedral (archdiocesan see)
Tradition
Roman Catholic
Religious use
In use as the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Mexico.
Official website
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

Map Building location: Apple Maps · Google Maps — the building, not a confirmed visitor entrance.

The cathedral of the Archdiocese of Mexico, it took almost 250 years to build, so that Gothic, Baroque, Churrigueresque and Neoclassical styles all appear in it.

In the Atlas

Each paragraph says whether it is documented history, a tradition handed down, or disputed.

  • Documented

    It stands on the former Aztec sacred precinct near the Templo Mayor. It was built in sections from 1573 to 1813 around the first church raised soon after the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan, which it eventually replaced. The architect Claudio de Arciniega planned it.

Reference draft. The statements were checked against the general reference sources below, read in a build session (Wikipedia at a recorded revision, and Wikidata). They have not yet been checked against scholarly or primary sources.

  • Reference work · Read in a build session

    Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral — Wikipedia (English)

    Read on 28 Oct 2026 at revision 1380555070, fetched by the research workflow (research/fetched/places/mexico-city-metropolitan-cathedral/wikipedia.txt). A general reference work, not a scholarly source; the statements here were checked against it.

  • Reference work · Read in a build session

    Wikidata item Q610961 (Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral) — Wikidata

    Read on 28 Oct 2026: instance of, religion, diocese, coordinates and official website.