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1760
Begun in the 16th century, it was completed in 1760
The Church of San Francisco Acatepec is a colonial building in the Mexican Baroque style, and one of the first churches founded in the region. The Franciscans came to the site to found a small convent and began a church in 1560. The present church was begun in the second half of the 17th century, and it was completed in 1760.
Talavera
The façade is Talavera tile and red brick, and was called a porcelain church
The façade is covered with Talavera tiles made specially for this church, handmade between 1650 and 1750, together with red brick. The colors refer to the Virgin Mary, in white and blue, and to Saint Joseph, in green and yellow. The torch-shaped pinnacles resemble elements of fine pastry. According to Manuel Toussaint, it looks like a "porcelain church".
Inside
Inside are golden altarpieces, little angels and the four evangelists
The interior has a rich decoration of golden mouldings and polychrome figures. Little angels populate the twisted columns of the altars, which were renewed after a fire in the interior. On the side arches are the four evangelists with their symbols: Saint Matthew with an angel, Saint Mark with a lion, Saint Luke with a bull and Saint John with an eagle. Unlike the church at Tonantzintla, it does not show indigenous iconography so profusely.
1946
The atrium was an open chapel and a cemetery, and a 1946 film was shot here
The atrium came before the present church. It served as an open chapel and as a sacred cemetery for the population. There were burials in the 17th and 18th centuries, and some tombs can still be seen, the oldest dating from 1887. In 1946 the director Emilio Fernández chose the church as one of the locations for the film Enamorada, starring María Félix and Pedro Armendáriz.
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