Qualla: Guadalajara Cathedral https://qualla.com/guadalajara-cathedral en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/e/w/t/guadalajara-cathedral-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Guadalajara Cathedral https://qualla.com/guadalajara-cathedral Guadalajara Cathedral: Introduction https://qualla.com/guadalajara-cathedral/ Photo credit Oscar García Arrezola, CC BY-SA 3.0. On May 30, 1574, someone fired celebratory gunshots into the air during Mass. Bullets fell back onto the roof and set the cathedral ablaze. It was not the first disaster to befall Guadalajara's main church, nor would it be the last. The Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady has been burned, shaken to rubble by earthquakes, and rebuilt so many times that its current form is a composite of centuries -- Spanish Renaissance walls supporting neo-Gothic towers that did not exist until 1854. The building at the heart of Guadalajara is less a single architectural statement than a record of persistence.

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/e/w/t/guadalajara-cathedral-wp/9ewt-guadalajara-cathedral-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Guadalajara Cathedral: From Adobe to Cathedral https://qualla.com/guadalajara-cathedral/ Photo credit Melparra, CC BY-SA 4.0. The first church on this site was built in 1541 from adobe with a thatched roof, a humble structure for a settlement still finding its footing in New Spain. Seven years later, in 1548, the Holy See designated the region a diocese, and the little adobe church became a cathedral by...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/e/w/t/guadalajara-cathedral-wp/9ewt-guadalajara-cathedral-from-adobe-to-cathedral.mp3 0:06 2 full Guadalajara Cathedral: Towers That Would Not Stay Standing https://qualla.com/guadalajara-cathedral/ Photo credit Roberto J. Arceo, CC BY-SA 3.0. In the early morning of May 31, 1818, an earthquake shook Guadalajara and brought the cathedral's towers and dome crashing down. Replacement structures were built, only to be destroyed by another earthquake in 1849. For years the cathedral stood damaged and tower-less, its silhou...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/e/w/t/guadalajara-cathedral-wp/9ewt-guadalajara-cathedral-towers-that-would-not-stay-standing.mp3 0:06 3 full Guadalajara Cathedral: A Blending of Styles https://qualla.com/guadalajara-cathedral/ Photo credit Salvador alc, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk around the cathedral's exterior and you trace the history of its construction. The main body is Spanish Renaissance: geometric, proportional, built on a basilica plan with pilasters in colossal order framing the entrance and semicircular arches flanked by columns. Then the e...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/e/w/t/guadalajara-cathedral-wp/9ewt-guadalajara-cathedral-a-blending-of-styles.mp3 0:06 4 full Guadalajara Cathedral: The Living Cathedral https://qualla.com/guadalajara-cathedral/ Photo credit PlanoAbierto, CC BY 4.0. The cathedral's crypt holds the remains of three cardinals and several bishops of the diocese. Among them rests Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, assassinated in 1993 at Guadalajara International Airport in a shooting that remains controversial. The interior holds altars dedica...

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