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The following is a list of the oldest extant church in each of the
The
The Templo de San Esteban dates to 1591.
The Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción in
The Convento de San Miguel Arcángel began construction in 1524 and is the oldest of the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl.
Construction on what would become the Catedral de Tlaxcala occurred in the 1530s.
administrative divisions of Mexico
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and Mexico City, an autonomous entity. According to the Constitution of 1917, the states of the federation are free ...
. The first place of Christian worship
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Throughout most ...
in what would become Mexico
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was in what is now known as La Antigua, Veracruz La Antigua is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city of José Cardel serves as the municipal seat. La Antigua is regarded as the first real Spanish town in Mexico.
History
In prehispanic times, La Antigua was populated by a ...
, founded by the Spanish in 1519.
Aguascalientes
The Catedral de Aguascalientes completed in 1738. This cathedral is built on the site of a chapel founded in 1575.Baja California
TheMisión Santa Gertrudis
Mission Santa Gertrudis (Spanish: ''Misión Santa Gertrudis''), originally to be called ''Dolores del Norte'', was a Spanish mission established by the Jesuit missionary Georg Retz in 1752 in what is today the Mexican state of Baja California. ...
was founded in 1751.
Baja California Sur
The Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó
Misión de Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, or Mission Loreto, was founded on October 25, 1697, at the Monqui Native American (Indian) settlement of Conchó in the city of Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Established by the Catholic Churc ...
founded on 25 October 1697 is considered the "head and mother of all the Spanish missions in Alta and Baja California".
The oldest mission in the Californias
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was the short-lived Misión San Bruno
Mission San Bruno ( es, Misión San Bruno) was a short-lived Spanish mission established by Jesuit order on October 7, 1684, in what is now the Loreto Municipality of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The mission was the first Spanish mission establ ...
, established in 1683.
Campeche
In 1540, a church in honor of the Virgen de la Purísima Concepción was begun and it was built upon until 1650. It was expanded between 1758 and 1760. Another tower was added in 1850 and it was elevated to Catedral de Campeche in 1895 during the establishment of the Diocese of Campeche.Chiapas
The Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzmán in Chiapa de Corzo began construction in 1554.Chihuahua
TheTemplo de San Francisco de Asís
The Templo de San Francisco de Asís is a Catholic church in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. It is located adjacent to the Parque San Francisco at #295 Calle 16 de Septiembre in the central part of the city. The church was built by the Francisca ...
, built between 1721 and 1741, is the oldest religious building in Chihuahua City
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Am ...
.
Coahuila
The Templo de San Esteban dates to 1591.
Colima
The Catedral Basílica Menor de Colima. It has a precursor in a building constructed of wood in 1525.Durango
The Templo de San Francisco was completed in 1563. The building was partially ruined, but INAH approved its refurbishment. It is located in Nombre de Dios, the first settlement in Durango.Guanajuato
TheParroquia de San Francisco
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It can be found i ...
in Acambaro dates to 1532.
Guerrero
The cathedral of Chilapa has a predecessor from at the very least 1533.Hidalgo
The Capilla de la Expiración inTulancingo
Tulancingo (officially Tulancingo de Bravo; Otomi: Ngu̱hmu) is the second-largest city in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. It is located in the southeastern part of the state and also forms one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, as well as the ...
dates to 1526.
Jalisco
TheGuadalajara Cathedral
The Guadalajara Cathedral or Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady ( es, Catedral de Guadalajara or Catedral de la Asunción de María Santísima), located in Centro, Guadalajara, Jalisco, is the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Gu ...
has a predecessor built on the same site in 1541.
México
The Catedral de Texcoco has antecedents beginning in 1526.Mexico City
The Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción in Coyoacán
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began construction in 1525.
Michoacán
The Capilla de Santa María Magdalena inTacámbaro
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The city is located at . In the 2020 census, the city's population was 81,105. ...
is from 1538.
Morelos
Construction on theCuernavaca Cathedral
The Cuernavaca Cathedral ( es, Catedral de la Asunción de María) is the Roman Catholic church architecture, church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuernavaca, Diocese of Cuernavaca, located in the city of Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. The church ...
began in 1529. The building forms part of the World Heritage
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site '' Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatépetl''.
Nayarit
The Templo de Santiago de Compostela has antecedents in the 16th century.Nuevo León
The Capilla de Doña Mónica Rodríguez inSan Pedro Garza García
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dates to 1661.
Oaxaca
The Templo y Exconvento de San Juan de Dios was completed in 1703. This is where the first mass in Oaxaca was held in 1521.Puebla
The Convento de San Miguel Arcángel began construction in 1524 and is the oldest of the Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl.
Querétaro
The Iglesia Chiquita inEl Marqués
El Marqués is a municipality
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The term ''mun ...
dates to 1529. It was founded following the conversion of Otomi
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The Otomi are an indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit a discontinuous territory in central Mexico. They are linguisticall ...
leader Conín
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to Christianity.
Quintana Roo
San Luis Potosí
The Exconvento de San Agustín inXilitla
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is from 1557.
Sinaloa
The Parroquia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario from 1731.Sonora
TheMission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama
Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama is located in Tubutama, Sonora and was first founded in 1691 by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino.
Father Antonio de los Reyes on 6 July 1772 submitted a report on the condition of the missions in the Upp ...
founded in 1691 by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino
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.
The first mission was the Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores founded in 1687.
Tabasco
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* Iglesia Department
* Iglesia ni Cristo
* Iglesia Filipina Independiente
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in Tacotalpa was completed in 1710.
Tamaulipas
The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Las Nieves in Palmillas dates to 1777.Tlaxcala
Construction on what would become the Catedral de Tlaxcala occurred in the 1530s.
Veracruz
The Parroquia de San José inXalapa
Xalapa or Jalapa (, ), officially Xalapa-Enríquez (), is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In the 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879 and the municipality of which ...
is from 1535.
Yucatán
The Catedral de Yucatán was built between 1562 and 1599.Zacatecas
TheZacatecas Cathedral
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was preceded by two temples, one that began construction in 1568 and another in 1625.
See also
*List of the oldest churches in the United States
The designation of the oldest church in the United States requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving ''building'', and the oldest in the sense of oldest Christian church ...
* Oldest churches in the world
This article lists some but by no means all of the oldest known church buildings in the world. In most instances, buildings listed here were reconstructed numerous times and only fragments of the original buildings have survived. These surviving ...
* List of oldest buildings in the Americas
This article lists the oldest known surviving buildings constructed in the Americas, including on each of the regions and within each country.
"Building" is defined as any human-made structure used or interface for supporting or sheltering any use ...
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