Zacatecas Cathedral

The Zacatecas Cathedral is a Catholic church in Zacatecas City, Zacatecas, Mexico. It is the head sanctuary of the Diocese of Zacatecas, and is devoted to Our Lady of the Assumption. The church is situated in the noteworthy downtown area, and was pronounced a World Heritage Site by Unesco. The fundamental veneer of the premises is known as a standout amongst the most extraordinary instances of Baroque craftsmanship in Mexico.

The present structure was gone before by two sanctuaries. The first was worked in the year 1568, as a ward church of the city, which was of little measurements. A second sanctuary was worked instead of the old and was known to be sanctified in 1625. In request to manufacture a sanctuary of bigger size deserving of the city of "the privileged people of silver", everything assembled was destroyed, and the dividers of the structure we meet in our day rose.

The principal stone was laid by Don Jose de Izarraguirre, episcopal vicar. The work was committed in 1752 and blessed in 1841, when the development of the facade and the north pinnacle was finished, the last work by the ace developer Damaso Muneton. This pinnacle holds a clock given by Governor Genaro Garcia Rojas. In 1862, Pope Pius IX gave the congregation church status. Lastly, in the year 1959, Pope John XXIII raised it to a basilica.