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Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southern areas of the country, founding hundreds of mission churches and monasteries to evangelize the Native population. This book documents more than 120 of these remarkable sixteenth-century sites in duotone black-and-white photographs.

Religious architecture --- religious buildings --- mission churches [buildings] --- Mexico --- Church architecture --- Spanish mission buildings --- Mission buildings, Spanish --- Missions