colonialmexico

The celebrated church of San Juan Chamula, the dominant structure in Chamula center and traditional focus of religious life there, was origi...

In this post we revisit the northeastern highlands of Chiapas, a region known in colonial times as Los Zendales—a corruption of Tzeltal—one ...

Continuing our Chiapas odyssey we look at the old church of Santo Tomás in the conflicted indigenous Maya speaking village of Oxchuc, east o...

This hilltop Tzeltal village overlooks the Pan-American Highway, south of San Cristóbal some 5 kms past Teopisca. Best known for its traditi...

We begin our new series on the churches of colonial Chiapas with a visit to Aguacatenango. Set at a distance from the highway beside a shall...

For the last in our current series of posts on the churches of Chihuahua with painted ceilings, we look at San Francisco de Borja in the Tar...

As an addendum to our previous post on Santa Ana de la Joya, we look briefly at its ruined companion church of San Nicolás. Now abandoned a...