The Iglesias de Nuestra Señora de los Remedies (Our Lady of Remedies Church) is a 16th-century Mexican Catholic parish church built atop the Tlachihualtepetl pyramid in Cholula, Mexico. The church was built with brad stone and decorated with 24 carat gold. It was built in the neoclassical style between May 1574 and August 1575 and consecrated on March 25, 1629. The base on which the church is built is the largest pyramid of the ancient world, being177 feet high, covering 54 acres and shaped by several superimposed structures over the course of six centuries.
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This archeological structure consists of several superimposed pyramids, accumulated over six centuries. The base is1,480 feet on each side and177 feet high, twice as large as that of the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan and four times bigger in volume than that of Keops in Egypt. The basilica was constructed with brada stone and decorated with 24 carat gold leaf laminilla. The altar is in the neoclassic style, as is the rest of the decoration. In 1595, the painter Alfonso de Villasana crafted the pictures on the walls of the basilica.
