Churches in Mexico

This 16th-century missionary site features Catholic murals, stone carvings, and fortress-like architecture.

Mexico City’s smallest church, designed as a miniature cathedral and visited mainly by robbers and prostitutes.

This avian-shaped stone that once held the hearts of Aztec human sacrifices now lies at the feet of Christ inside a Catholic church.

One of the oldest Christian churches still standing in the Americas, and almost certainly Mexico's oldest in continuous use.

One of the best examples of Modernist religious architecture in Mexico City.

This former ghost town high in the mountains of northern Mexico is now a pilgrimage site.

A mountaintop shrine named for the road to heaven.

The ruins of a 16th-century Spanish convent tell a forgotten history.

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

Past the hills and beyond the graveyard, this church feels extremely out of place.

These sailing ship-shaped chandeliers are believed to have been a gift inspired by faith.

This small church is surrounded by a landscape filled with hidden Zapotec ruins.

The walls and ceilings of the "Mexican Sistine Chapel" are almost completely covered with mural, sculpture, inscriptions and oil paintings.

This former 17th-century church now houses a university's public library along with several mural masterworks.

Oaxaca's recently restored "forgotten Dominican convent."

Monumental paintings, discovered in a Mexican cathedral in 1957, depict the deaths of some friars in Japan.