Templo Mayor
The Templo Mayor was the main temple of the Mexica people in their capital city of Tenōchtitlan, which is now Mexico City. Its architectural style belongs to the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerica.Photo: GAED, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and Templo Mayor Museum.
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
Church
Photo: Nan Palmero, CC BY 2.0.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven, also commonly called the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, is the cathedral church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico. Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral is situated 190 metres west of Templo Mayor.
Templo Mayor Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Templo Mayor Museum is situated 120 metres east of Templo Mayor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Centro and Tlatelolco.
Centro
Photo: Uwebart, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The old city center or Centro Histórico of Mexico City, centered on the Plaza de la Constitución, has been the heart of the nation since Aztec times. Its colonial and European architecture and narrow cobblestone streets set it apart from the rest of Mexico City.
Tlatelolco
Quarter
Photo: Diego Rivera, Public domain.
Tlatelolco was a pre-Columbian altepetl, or city-state, in the Valley of Mexico. Its inhabitants, known as the Tlatelolca, were part of the Mexica, a Nahuatl-speaking people who arrived in what is now central Mexico in the 13th century.
Colonia Juárez
Neighborhood
Photo: Thelmadatter, Public domain.
Colonia Juárez is one of the better-known neighborhoods or colonias in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City. The neighborhood is shaped like a long triangle with the boundaries: Paseo de la Reforma on the north, Avenida Chapultepec on the south, and Eje 1 Poniente on the east. Colonia Juárez is situated 3 km west of Templo Mayor.
Templo Mayor
- Type: Temple
- Description: main Temple of Tenochtitlan
- Categories: archaeological site, pyramid, step pyramid, and religion
- Location: Cuauhtémoc Borough, Mexico City, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Templo Mayor” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Məbəd piramidası”
- Azerbaijani: “Böyük Məbəd”
- Azerbaijani: “Templo Mayor piramidası”
- Azerbaijani: “Templo Mayor”
- Basque: “Tenplu Nagusia”
- Catalan: “Temple Major”
- Chinese: “主神庙”
- Chinese: “主神廟”
- Chinese: “大神庙”
- Chinese: “大神廟”
- Chinese: “特诺奇蒂特兰大金字塔”
- Chinese: “特諾奇蒂特蘭大金字塔”
- Croatian: “Velika piramida u Tenochtitlánu”
- Dutch: “Templo Mayor”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المعبد الرئيسى”
- Esperanto: “Granda Templo”
- French: “Grande pyramide de Tenochtitlan”
- French: “Templo Mayor”
- Georgian: “ტემპლო მაიორი”
- Georgian: “ტემპლო-მაიორი”
- German: “Templo Mayor”
- Hebrew: “טמפלו מאיור”
- Indonesian: “Templo Mayor”
- Italian: “Templo Mayor”
- Japanese: “テンプロ・マヨール”
- Korean: “템플로 마요르”
- Latin: “Templum Maius”
- Latvian: “Lielais templis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Templo Mayor”
- Norwegian: “Templo Mayor”
- Persian: “معبد مایور”
- Polish: “Templo Mayor”
- Portuguese: “Templo Mayor”
- Russian: “Темпло Майор”
- Serbian: “Велика пирамида у Теночтитлану”
- Slovenian: “Templo Mayor”
- Spanish: “Templo Mayor”
- Turkish: “Templo Mayor”
- Ukrainian: “Темпло майор”
- “Huēyi teōcalli”
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