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[[File:Templo de Nuestra Señora de Balvanera DF 2.JPG|thumb|Facade of the church]]
[[File:Templo Ntra Sra de Balvanera. Altar.jpg|thumb|Main altar]]
The '''Cathedral of Our Lady of Valvanera''' (also '''Maronite Cathedral of Our Lady of Valvanera'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/northamerica/4852.htm|title=Catedral Maronita de Nuestra Señora de Valvanera, Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico (Maronite)|website=www.gcatholic.org|access-date=2016-11-25}}</ref> sometimes spelled Balvanera, {{langx|es|Catedral Maronita de Nuestra Señora de Valvanera}}) is located southeast of the main plaza, or [[Zocalo]], of [[Mexico City]] on the corner of Correo Mayor and República de Uruguay in the [[Historic center of Mexico City|historic center]]. The church originally belonged to the Convent of Santo Niño Perdido which was founded in 1573.<ref name="GTM">{{cite book |title= Guia Turistica de Mexico – Distrito Federal Centro 3 |editor-last= Bueno de Ariztegui |editor-first=Patricia |year=1984 |publisher=Promexa |location=Mexico City |isbn=968-34-0319-0 |page=102 }}</ref> This would then become a [[Conceptionists|Conceptionist]] convent in the 17th century,<ref name="valvanera">{{cite web |title=Monasterio de Valvanera |url=http://www.valvanera.com/adoracion23.htm |language=es |trans-title=Convent of Valvanera |access-date=2009-10-14 |archive-date=2011-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612202654/http://www.valvanera.com/adoracion23.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> when the church and convent were rebuilt in 1667. It also gained its current name at that time.<ref name="GTM"/>
Due to the [[Reform War|Reform Laws]] in 1861, the nuns were required to vacate the convent portion and the cloister and other buildings associated with the church were demolished.<ref name="GTM"/><ref name="valvanera"/> Its main altar was nearly destroyed during the political struggles of the 19th century but the oil of the Black Virgin of [[Monastery of Nuestra Señora de Valvanera|Valvanera]] (or Balvanera) remains.<ref name="valvanera"/>
This church was declared a historic monument on August 30, 1932.<ref>[Catálogo nacional de monumentos históricos inmuebles Centro Histórico (Perímetro A) Tomo III, D.F. México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. 1992. p. 1400.]</ref>
Nowadays this church is the cathedral of the [[Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of the Martyrs of Lebanon]] in Mexico.
The church is of [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] style with its main entrance at the side of the church, as was common with convents in Mexico. The bell tower is covered in tile from [[Puebla]]. Only this church and the church of La Encarnación have Puebla tile on the bell towers. The church facade is of [[tezontle]] divided by five [[buttress]]es and topped by an [[entablature]] with a [[frieze]] with anagrams of the names of Jesus and Mary. Both portals have two levels of decoration on them. Inside, the main altar is Neoclassical and made of stone. The oil of Nuestra Señora de Balvanera is from the 17th century. It and the sculptures here were donated by a Maronite church. The sacristy has paintings by Carlos Clemente Lopez that date from 1750.<ref name="GTM"/><ref name="valvanera"/>
==See also==
*[[List of colonial churches in Mexico City]]
==References==
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==External links==
{{commonscat|Nuestra Señora de Balvanera Church, Mexico City}}
* http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/northamerica/4852.htm
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{{Cathedrals in Mexico}}
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