Church Of Santo Domingo (Puebla)
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The Convent Church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán is a Roman Catholic church within the jurisdiction of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Puebla de los Angeles Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...
, with the archangel Michael as its
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. Attached to it is the Chapel of the Rosario, an example of New Spanish Baroque, considered in its time to be the "
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".Ayuntamiento de Puebla
The church is located in
Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...
's historic centre.


See also

* Chapel of the Rosario, Puebla * List of buildings in Puebla City


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* Roman Catholic churches in Puebla (city) 1610s establishments in Mexico 1611 establishments in New Spain Baroque church buildings in Puebla Roman Catholic churches in Mexico Spanish Colonial architecture in Mexico Historic centre of Puebla 17th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Mexico {{RC-church-stub