page_title: Hospital de Jesús Nazareno
section_title: Hospital
hierarchical_section_title: Hospital de Jesús Nazareno / Buildings / Hospital
caption_attribution_description: English: Jesús Nazareno Church on the corner of Pino Suarez and Republica de El Salvador in the historic center of Mexico City. Final resting place of Hernán Cortés.
context_page_description: The Church and Hospital of Jesús Nazareno buildings are located in the Historic center of Mexico City, in México, D. F., Mexico. The hospital is still in operation, housed in a Modernist building, located in front of the original one, and beside the former church. Both historic buildings and their courtyards are 17th-century Spanish colonial era architecture.
context_section_description: The Jesús Hospital is one of the oldest buildings in Mexico City. It was most likely operating by 1524, although this is disputed, since it was one of three hospitals started around the same time, and various records have different dates for the first opening. The hospital with its church was originally called Purísima Concepción. At the beginning of the colonial period, it was popularly known as the Hospital del Marqués.
  The hospital was originally designed by Pedro Vázques, and Cortés left a number of farmlands in his will for the benefit of the institution. Cortés died before the hospital  building was finished, and the colonial government of New Spain hired Alonso Pérez de Castañeda to replace Vázques. Six years and 43,000 pesos later, it was still not finished.
  130 years later Antonio de Calderón Benavides was named head of the institution and worked to finish it. At this time the hospital received an image of Jesus of Nazarene, and the hospital was renamed after the image when it was finally dedicated in 1665.
  To one extent or another, just about all of major architects in the Viceroyalty of New Spain were involved with the buildings, from construction to repair work. Some of those include: Claudio de Arciniega, Diego de Aguilera, Sebastian Zamorano, Pedro de Arrieta, and Francisco Antonio Guerrero y Torres.
caption: Facade of Church of Jesus Nazareno.
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