Church of Santa Inés

The Church of Santa Inés is a church located at 26 Moneda Street, just northeast of the Zócalo, Mexico City, Mexico. The building, formerly part of the Convent of Santa Inés, is considered to be a mix of styles between Mexican Baroque and Neoclassical. The church was completely finished in 1770.[1]

Exterior, 2011
Interior, 2009

The church has two portals, one dedicated to Saint Agnes and the other to the Apostle James the Great.[2] The wooden doors of this church are carved with reliefs. Some of these depict the life of Saint Agnes and others show images of the nuns of the convent with their benefactors, Don Diego Caballero and Doña Inés de Velasco. One scene depicts the life of the Apostle James just after he is martyred by decapitation. One other shows Santiago Matamoros, a saint connected with the expulsion of the Moors from Spain.[3]

Its dome is decorated with tiles laid in a strip design and made to look like rebozos, a type of indigenous shawl.[1] Inside, the original Baroque altar is long gone, replaced with the current Neoclassic altar.[2] Mexican painters Miguel Cabrera and José de Ibarra are interned in altar here.[4]

References
  1. "Guia de Iglesia de Santa Inés". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
  2. Bueno de Ariztegui (ed), Patricia (1984). Guia Turistica de Mexico – Distrito Federal Centro 3. Mexico City: Promexa. p. 94. ISBN 968-34-0319-0.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  3. Galindo, Carmen; Magdelena Galindo (2002). Mexico City Historic Center. Mexico City: Ediciones Nueva Guia. p. 68. ISBN 968-5437-29-7.
  4. Cuevas, Beatriz del Carmen. "Historia del Convento de Sta. Ines y creación del Museo JLC". Retrieved 2009-03-28.

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