The church of Tlaltenango, Cuernavaca; once a separate indigenous municipality and in the colonial era one of Cuernavaca’s most important sujetos. Tradition holds that the first church on this site was built at the direction of Hernando Cortés beginning in 1523, but the pictured structure is more recent than that, though still colonial in its origins. The building houses an image of the Virgin Mary that is said to have appeared miraculously to an indigenous woman.

Photo taken by Robert Haskett in the spring of 1994 with a Minolta SRT 101 camera using Kodak Ektachrome slide film. ©2005