Convento de Sor Juana #10


Source: WTL digital photograph on site in Mexico City, D.F.
Image: Returning to the western side of the university-convent we see the patio which one crosses to access the administrative offices and the old chapel. Here we see ruins lof foundations of now demolished buildings that had been built around the chapel in the nineteenth century. Entrance to the old cloister and current classrooms is through a passage at the extreme left of this photo. The sixteenth-century convent was the product fusing two mansions, one belonging to Alonso Ortiz (NW of the Great Cloister, or central patio), and the other belonging to Isabel de Barrios (NE of the first convent). Both houses were joined by doñna Isabel de Guevara to create the founding convent of Hieronymity nuns.