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Where in the world
Mexico
Templo Mayor
Aztec (Mexica) · Mexico
Field notes
- civilizations
- Aztec (Mexica)
- types
- Temple · Ceremonial pyramid
- built
- 1,325 CE — 1,502 CE
- occupied
- 1,325 CE — 1,521 CE
- country
- Mexico
The site
Templo Mayor was the main temple of the Mexica in their capital Tenochtitlan, now buried beneath central Mexico City. Its great pyramid, roughly 100 by 80 meters at the base, carried twin shrines reached by separate staircases, dedicated at once to Huitzilopochtli, god of war, and Tlaloc, god of rain. Begun after 1325 and rebuilt six times, it was razed by the Spanish in 1521, with the city's cathedral raised over its ruins.
