Lord of the Chapel

The Lord of the Chapel, (in Spanish as Señor de la Capilla and Otomi as Zidada Nikjä), is a statue of the crucifixion of Jesus from Saint James Apostle parish in Santiago Tequixquiac, Mexico.

[1] The image is popularly believed to have placated any further disaster caused by illness and epidemics with Indigenous people.

It was probably created in Actopan ex-monastery by native artists around 1570, and is made of mixed materials, including sticks, plaques of agave fiber, and plaster.

There is a strong relationship with Cryptojudaism because in this town its first Iberian inhabitants were Sephardic converts to Christianity arrived with Hernán Cortés; in the face of the image are very obvious a rabbinical signs, one of them are payots or curls in the side hair.

The image has a cross made of walnut and details of ivory called tablets that were brought from the Philippines.