Protestant neo-gothic temples and civil engineers

Between the constructive innovation, the stylistic inertias and the religious symbolism

Abstract

One of the courses of the neogothic expression in America was the genre religious, from the ends of the XIXth century up to good brought in the XXth century, with excellent catholic apostolic churches. This religious tie between the neogothic style and the catholic churches seemed that it was exclusive, that is to say, as if this morphology was the 'natural' expression of the Catholicism, for his symbolic remembranzas with that stage of glorious piety in that remote medieval period. These assertions seem to be invalidated on having identified many temples for the historical Protestantism —Baptists, Presbyterian, Methodists— so much in Mexico, as in the principal Latinoamerican cities, many of them, by the way, made by civil engineers, rather than by architects.