Mexico

La Merced Cloister

Mexico

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.

La Merced Cloister, in the Historic Center of Mexico City, is the surviving remnant of a larger Mercedarian monastery complex built in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries during the colonial period. Constructed in the Mudéjar architectural style, the cloister now stands alone at the corner of Uruguay and Talavera Streets, the sole witness to a religious complex that was largely demolished to make way for subsequent urban development. The surviving structure gave its name to the surrounding district of La Merced, which subsequently lent its identity to both a metro station and the famous neighborhood market that flourishes there today.