Regina Coeli parish

This guide to Regina Coeli parish in Mexico City traces a losing fight against rising damp that has crept through the walls since at least 1945, on ground shaped by Mexico City's drained lakebed. It follows the church's slow construction by Conceptionist nuns from the 1570s, the patron who finally funded its completion, and the repeated restorations of the centuries since. You'll also hear about the gilded altarpiece to Our Lady of the Fountain, carved by Felipe de Ureña in 1738.