The Immaculate Conception Cathedral ( es, Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción), also Matehuala Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral located in the city of

Matehuala Matehuala is the second most important city in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. It is located at around , at an elevation of about 1,500 m. Matehuala is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name, located in the norther ...

, in the state of San Luis Potosí in

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. Although the cathedral is open for worship, it is still under construction. Its style is neo-Gothic / neo-Byzantine. The first stone was laid in 1906 with slight variations in its dimensions. The northern ship was the first body to be finished and to be used for religious celebrations, known by the matehualenses as "the ship". In the middle of the twentieth century the first phase of the cathedral's construction was completed at the end of the altar, the south nave and the lateral ones. The cathedral is not yet finished and the towers of the main façade are being built.

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