Santo Domingo (Mexico City)

[1] Officially known as the Señor de la Expiración Chapel,[2] the church is located on the north side of Belisario Dominguez and faces the plaza.

A couple of decades later, it was decided that expansion was needed and the first church on the Santo Domingo site was consecrated in 1590.

The general style is considered to be Mexican Baroque but before the introduction of the common "estipite" column with its signature inverted truncated pyramids.

[2] In the center at the top is a bas relief of the Assumption[1] located between two windows that light the choir area.

[4] The main altarpiece is neoclassical and the work of Manuel Tolsá,[2] which was created to replace the original Baroque one done by Pedro Patiño Ixtolinque.

Each of the lateral windows has two oil paintings decorating them and finished with the coat-of-arms of Castile as well as the emblem of the Dominican order.

[2] The church also has a choir in the shape of a horseshoe with 32 seats made of cedar, each with an image of a different saint carved in relief into the backs.

A statue of Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez, a heroine of the Mexican War of Independence stands in a fountain in the middle of the plaza.

According to the intelligence division of the Policia Judicial of the Distrito Federal, in addition to the 242 print shops that operate legally in this zone, there have noted 614 cases of printers set up to falsify documents in the various apartments and other living quarters that surround this area.

One of the oldest structures that was at this spot was called the "Chapel of the "Morenos"" (brown-skinned), named so because here is where the Dominican friars evangelized to the indigenous population.

[10] At 97 Republica de Cuba is the house on property that once belonged to Juan Jaramillo, husband of La Malinche.

[12] At 92 Republica de Cuba is a building that dates from the Porfirio Diaz presidency at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th.

[12] At 37 Republica de Brasil is the house where Leona Vicario, a heroine of the Mexican War of Independence died.