Cholula - Church of the Virgin of the Eternal Redemption

(Local Name: Nuestra Señora de los Remedios) Following the Conquest, finding that the indigenous population remained faithful to the cult of Quetzalcóatl and their other deities, the Spanish erected churches over the ancient temples or on the sites. On the razed summit of the main pyramid at Cholula they constructed the church of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios ("Virgin of the Eternal Redemption"). A collapse in 1666 meant that building work had to be restarted, continuing into the 18th c. The church was extensively damaged again in 1884, this time by an earthquake, afterwards being rebuilt in the Neo-Classical style. A statue of the Madonna, preserved behind glass above the altar, is said to have been given to