Aguascalientes Cathedral

The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption[1] (Spanish: Catedral Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción) Also Aguascalientes Cathedral[2] It is the main Catholic building of the city of Aguascalientes[3] in Mexico, and one of the emblematic monuments of the city.

The construction of the current temple was initiated by the priest Antonio Flores de Acevedo in 1704, finishing the parish priest Manuel Colón de Larreátegui in 1738.

Twin towers showing a neoclassical style on their curved pediments.

The main front of the temple is in its entirety carved in pink quarry, which consists of three bodies and auction; In the first one the access is through an arch of half point with key of archangel; To the sides salomonic columns of vegetal reliefs and compound capital.

In the lateral façades, the doorway of the accesses with a semicircular arch is highlighted, flanked by smooth columns that support entablature with broken fronton and florones at the sides.

Internal view