El poder en la arquitectura religiosa de Taxco, Gro.

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to analyze what religious architecture expresses, this start with the idea that a whole city and its architecture shows how it is organized socially. The architecture and the Mexican colonial cities, were founded with the intention of achieving the ideological domain of the Spanish Crown, with the same purpose the Catholic religion was introduced into the imaginary of Mexicans. Religion has played a fundamental role in the ideological domination exercised by the hegemonic class over the subaltern mass, for which religious architecture is necessary, they are the spaces where the doctrine of the believer is exercised. The religious temples were built, based on the interests and imaginaries of the ruling class. This architecture represents the interests of the class that it has the economic and ideological power, over the rest of society. In this paper, it was studied the origin and power of religious architecture in Mexico, as a way of studying the chapels and the parishes of Santa Prisca and San Sebastian of the city of Taxco de Alarcon, Guerrero in Mexico are analyzed.