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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral and Templo Mayor Museum.
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
Church
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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
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Templo Mayor Museum is situated 120 metres east of Templo Mayor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Centro and Santa María la Redonda.
Centro
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The old city center or Centro Histórico of Mexico City, around the Plaza de la Constitución, is an area clearly different from the rest of the city. Its colonial and European architecture and narrow cobblestone streets set it apart from the rest of Mexico City.
Santa María la Redonda
Neighborhood
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Santa María la Redonda is a traditional neighborhood located in the Cuauhtémoc municipality of Mexico City now part of colonia Guerrero close to Tepito and La Lagunilla.
Tepito
Neighborhood
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Tepito is a barrio located in Colonia Morelos in Cuauhtémoc, a borough of Mexico City bordered by Avenida del Trabajo, Paseo de la Reforma, Eje 1 and Eje 2.
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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