page_title: Mendicant monasteries in Mexico
section_title: Gothic elements
hierarchical_section_title: Mendicant monasteries in Mexico / Ideological inspirations / Gothic elements
caption_attribution_description: English: Rose window on the facade of the San Juan Bautista church in Yecapixtla, Morelos, Mexico
context_page_description: Mendicant monasteries in Mexico were one of the architectural solutions devised by the friars of the Mendicant orders in the 16th century to the evangelization in the New Spain. The religious function of these buildings was thought for an enormous number of Amerindian indigenous people to evangelize although soon, due to the policy of reduction, the whole became the social center of the pueblos de indios, transmitting to them the civil modes of the West, Castilian, various arts and crafts, health, and even funeral services.
  The buildings were based on architectural styles that were already in disuse for the time, such as Romanesque and Gothic, and on the European monastic model – essentially on the Cluny Abbey – but they added innovative elements such as the atrial cross and the capilla abierta, as well as being characterized by various decorative currents and a strong appearance as fortresses.
context_section_description: Ascentional direction
  Decorative rib vaults rather than functional or supporting
  Rose windows of stone. Example is preserved in Yecapixtla, Morelos.
  Pointed arches
  Segmental arches type basket arch in the cloisters, mainly.
caption: Rose window in Yecapixtla, Morelos.
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