Teocalli
Sign in to savethumb|260px|The teocalli of Cholula A teocalli (Nahuatl: "God-house") is a Mesoamerican pyramid surmounted by a temple. The pyramid is terraced, and some of the most important religious rituals in Pre-Columbian Mexico took place in the temple at the top of the pyramid.
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It sits within the topics Chicano, Mesoamerican architecture and Temples.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
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- religious building
- Part of
- Mesoamerican architecture
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thumb|260px|The teocalli of Cholula A teocalli (Nahuatl: "God-house") is a Mesoamerican pyramid surmounted by a temple. The pyramid is terraced, and some of the most important religious rituals in Pre-Columbian Mexico took place in the temple at the top of the pyramid.
The famous, although no longer extant, Aztec Huey Teocalli ("Great Temple," Spanish, Templo Mayor) was located next to what is now Mexico City's main square, the Zócalo. A famous 1848 painting by Emanuel Leutze depicts The Storming of Teocalli by Cortez and his Troops, which Leutze painted four years before his classic Washington Crossing the Delaware. One of the Cuban poet José María Heredia's best-known poems is titled En el teocalli de Cholula.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Teocalli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.