Church of San Francisco

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San Francisco Church in Tlaxcala city, Mex.

Church of San Francisco

church, Tlaxcala, Mexico

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Tlaxcala
…the first Christian church (San Francisco) in the Americas. It was near Tlaxcala that Cortés built the brigantines that he transported in pieces to the Lake of Mexico for his final onslaught on the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City).
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…the first Christian church (San Francisco) in the Americas. It was near Tlaxcala that Cortés built the brigantines that he transported in pieces to the Lake of Mexico for his final onslaught on the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City).
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