Convento y Templo de Santa Clara ("Convent and Church of St Clare")
This place is marked by the history of the start of the Mexican Revolution.
6 Norte and 2 Oriente

During a lifetime marked by problems, this convent has gained and lost architectural elements to the point that the original convent of 1642 would be unrecognizable.

We know that the terrible earthquake of 1667 damaged its pillars and it only stayed up thanks to the strength of its walls, and so the city authorities decided to have an architect remedy the damage. To that end, sufficient buttresses and braces were placed around the building to even out the structural stresses and assure that the complex remained standing. Unfortunately, the earthquake of 1711 again caused serious damage to its structure. When it was re-consecrated on August 12th 1714, the Church of St Clare had a new feature to become common among the city's churches: a dome beautifully covered with tiles. The convent and the church were sold into private hands, a result of the anti-clerical Reform Laws of the 1850s (which expropriated church properties); however it still preserves some of the magnificence it had from its time as a religious space.

One historical detail of major importance is that on November 18th 1910, the Puebla police used this building as a stronghold and from there directed their attack on the Serdán brothers (Aquiles, Maximo and Carmen, leaders of the anti-government movement in Puebla), as the house where they were staying was opposite the side doors of this church, thus marking the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.