San Pedro y San Pablo College, Mexico City

. San Pedro y San Pablo College was the second college founded by Jesuits in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Jesuit missionaries were sent to the new colony in the 16th century for Jesuit Reductions version of Indian Reductions, and to found new missions and schools. The missionary group that founded the college was led by Father Pedro Sanchez. and the official founding occurred in 1574 with the name of Colegio Máximo de San Pedro y San Pablo (Great College of Saints Peter and Paul). The church annex was completed in 1603 by Diego Lopez de Albaize, and the rest of the college complex was finished in 1645. ==Building==

window with seal of former Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico. Church The facade of the church section of the college was built in the Spanish Baroque and Neoclassical styles. It was restored in 2010, as part of the renovations for the new Museum of the Constitutions of Mexico. Xavier Guerrero decorated the presbytery's dome in the 1920s, with paintings that were inspired by the zodiac. Cloister murals The walls of the cloister arcade had paintings by Dr. Atl and Robert Montenegro, but the works have been lost. The most important was titled The Festival of the Cross, which was painted in the stairwell of the east patio. In the stairway at the northwest corner of the cloister's patio, there is a fresco done by Roberto Montenegro in 1923, titled The Festival of the Holy Cross. It is said to have been done in a style to imitate fellow muralist Diego Rivera. Later in the 1920s, an allegory of the Mexican Revolution titled The Iconographic Museum of the Revolution was begun in the cloister by Gabriel Fernández Ledesma, but was not finished. ==Museums==

Museum of Light The Museum of Light (Museo de la Luz), a part of UNAM−Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, had exhibition space in San Pedro y San Pablo College from 1996 to 2010. It is a science museum dedicated to the phenomena of light and a contemporary art gallery for works of light art. The San Pedro y San Pablo College building was closed in 2010, in order to convert it into the Museum of the Constitutions. The Museum of Light moved out, and is now located in the colonial era San Ildefonso College building, also in the historic center of Mexico City. ==See also==