Cuernavaca Cathedral

The Cuernavaca Cathedral is the Roman Catholic church of the Diocese of Cuernavaca, located inside the city of Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. The church and its surrounding monastery is one of the early sixteenth century monasteries within the region of the Popocatepetl volcano, built to begin with for evangelization efforts of indigenous human beings after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. By the 18th century, the church of the monastery started out to function as the parish church of the metropolis and within the past due nineteenth century, it was multiplied to the rank of a cathedral. Unlike many cathedrals in Mexico, this one does now not face the city’s essential square, but instead is located simply to the south, in its very own walled compound, which it stocks with a number of different structures.

Unlike the alternative monastery systems from its time, the significance of this church provoked a number of maintenance projects, the closing of which occurred in 1957. This one took out the closing older decorations of the indoors and changed them with simple cutting-edge ones. This preservation work additionally uncovered a 17th-century mural that covers 400 square metres of the interior walls and narrates the story of Philip of Jesus and twenty 3 other missionaries who had been crucified in Japan.