The Immaculate Conception Cathedral (), also Matehuala Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral located in the city of

Matehuala Matehuala is a city in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, situated at an elevation of about 1,500 m. Matehuala is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name, located in the northern part of the state, on the border with ...

, as the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Matehuala, in the state of San Luis Potosí in

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. Although the cathedral is open for worship, it is still under construction. Its style is neo-Gothic / neo-Byzantine. The first stone was laid in 1906 with slight variations in its dimensions. The northern ship was the first body to be finished and to be used for religious celebrations, known by the matehualenses as "the ship". In the middle of the twentieth century the first phase of the cathedral's construction was completed at the end of the altar, the south nave and the lateral ones. The cathedral is not yet finished and the towers of the main façade are being built. This church bears the same architectural style as the , in

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. By January, 1898, the Roman catholic people of the city of Matehuala had asked

Jose Maria Ignacio Montes de Oca y Obregón Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. Given name Mishnaic and Talmudic periods *Jose ben Abin *Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galilean *Jose ben Halafta *J ...

, bishop of the then- Diocese of San Luis Potosí, the demolition of a parish church that threatened collapse. The Bishop asked his good friend president

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to commission an architect, for building a new temple, being Adamo Boari the initiator of this important church. Boari was based on the plans by

Gaspard André Gaspard André (16 March 1840 in Lyon - 12 February 1896 in Cannes) was a French architect, best known as the designer of the Theater of the Place des Célestins, the Fountain of the Place des Jacobins and the Grand Temple de Lyon in Lyon, the ...

, who had built the Saint-Joseph des Brotteaux church in Lyon. However, at the beginning of the construction there was a period –in the year of 1910, during the

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– when the plans were lost.

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