Church of San Bernardo (Iglesia de San Bernardo) description and photos - Mexico: Mexico City (Topic)

Church of San Bernardo (Iglesia de San Bernardo) description and photos - Mexico: Mexico City. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Iglesia de San Bernardo.

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The Church of San Bernardo is located on the corner of 20 November and Venustiano Carranza streets, south of the central Zocalo square in Mexico City. It was part of a monastery founded in 1636 and dedicated to the same Saint Bernardo. The monastery, like many other sacred institutions, was closed during the Reformation in 1861. The monastery was destroyed and the 20 November street was built in its place. The Church of San Bernardo survived.

The history of this temple is unusual. He had many high-ranking patrons. Even his appearance is associated with the large donations of the rich man Juan Marquez de Orozco. He bequeathed his entire considerable fortune to the Church on the condition that the money be used to build an abbey of the Cistercian order. After the death of Marquez de Orozco, Juan Retes de Largache, the Marquis de Sao Jorge became the patron saint of the future holy monastery and acquired a plot of land for the construction of a monastery and a church under him. The main architect of the temple was Juan Zepeda. In the 18th century, Miguel de Berrio y Salvidar, Count de San Mateo de Valparaiso, funded the renovation of the Church of San Bernardo. The temple was re-consecrated in 1777.

Most of the surface of the temple facades is covered with slabs of volcanic reddish stone. Two sculptures are installed in the baroque niches - one depicts the heavenly patron of the church of St. Bernardo, and the other - the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe. The statue of the Virgin Mary was originally located in the monastery, but after its demolition it was moved to the facade of the temple.

A large altar made in a neoclassical manner attracts attention in the interior of the San Bernardo temple.

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