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The following is a list of the oldest extant church in each of the
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. The first place of
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in what would become
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was in what is now known as La Antigua, Veracruz, 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

The Misión Santa Gertrudis 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 The Californias ( Spanish: ''Las Californias''), occasionally known as The Three Californias or Two Californias, are a region of North America spanning the United States and Mexico, consisting of the U.S. state of California and the Mexican s ...
was the short-lived Misión San Bruno, 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

The Templo de San Francisco de Asís, built between 1721 and 1741, is the oldest religious building in
Chihuahua City The city of Chihuahua ''(La Ciudad de Chihuahua)'' () is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. , the city of Chihuahua had a population of 925,762 inhabitants. while the metropolitan area had a population of 988,065 inhabitants. 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

The Parroquia de San Francisco 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 in
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dates to 1526.


Jalisco

The
Guadalajara 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
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began construction in 1525.


Michoacán

The Capilla de Santa María Magdalena in Tacámbaro is from 1538.


Morelos

Construction on the Cuernavaca Cathedral began in 1529. The building forms part of the
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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 in
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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 in El Marqués dates to 1529. It was founded following the conversion of
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leader Conín to Christianity.


Quintana Roo


San Luis Potosí

The Exconvento de San Agustín in
Xilitla Xilitla is a municipality ( es, municipio) and town in the state of San Luis Potosí in the Huasteca region of Mexico. The town is located at The municipality has an area of and had a population of 51,498 in 2010 of whom 6,576 lived in town of ...
is from 1557.


Sinaloa

The Parroquia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario from 1731.


Sonora

The Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama founded in 1691 by Father
Eusebio Francisco Kino Eusebio Francisco Kino ( it, Eusebio Francesco Chini, es, Eusebio Francisco Kino; 10 August 1645 – 15 March 1711), often referred to as Father Kino, was a Tyrolean Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer and astronomer born in ...
. The first mission was the Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores founded in 1687.


Tabasco

The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción 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 in
Xalapa 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

The
Zacatecas Cathedral The Cathedral of Zacatecas, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, Virgin of the Assumption, is the main temple of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zacatecas, Diocese of Zacatecas. Located in the historic center of the Zacatecas City, city, declared W ...
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 *
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


References

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