Destroyed high altar
from: Rasmussen, Christian H. Catedral de Mérida, Compañía Editorial de la Península, SA de CV, Mérida, p. 29.
Believed to date circa 1760-62 and once considered the second largest in Mexico, the enormous high altar of the Mérida was destroyed along with other church furnishings on the night of Sept., 24, 1915 during an anticlerical raid.
Believed to date circa 1760-62 and once considered the second largest in Mexico, the enormous high altar of the Mérida was destroyed along with other church furnishings on the night of Sept., 24, 1915 during an anticlerical raid.
|
Also in: San Ildefonso (Catedral)
 |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |  |  |