{{Infobox building | name = El Templete | image = Detroit Photographic Company (0983).jpg | pushpin_mapsize = | mapframe-zoom = 15 | building_type = Memorial | architectural_style = Neo-classical | classification = | location = Havana Vieja | address = | location_city = 20px Ciudad de La Habana | location_country = {{Flagicon|CUB}} Cuba | coordinates = {{coord|23|08|25.78|N|82|20|56.52|W|region:CU-02_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | material = Stone }} '''El Templete''' is a monument to the initial mass of San Cristóbal de la Habana celebrated on November 16, 1519.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahabana.com/guide/el-templete-sight/|title=El Templete|access-date=2018-10-06|archive-date=2020-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711113405/http://www.lahabana.com/guide/el-templete-sight/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inhavana.net/templete-genesis-of-a-city-old-havana-cuba/|title=Templete: genesis of a city|access-date=2018-10-07|archive-date=2020-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200710192231/https://www.inhavana.net/templete-genesis-of-a-city-old-havana-cuba/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Jean Baptiste Vermay painted the interior of the monument.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Niell |first=Paul |date=August 2012 |title=Founding the Academy of San Alejandro and the Politics of Taste in Late Colonial Havana, Cuba |url=https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Jean-Baptiste-Vermay-Paintings-for-El-Templete-interior-visible-are-The-First-Mass_fig6_254237499 |journal=Colonial Latin American Review |doi=10.1080/10609164.2012.695628}}</ref> thumb|left|200px|Floor Plan
==See also== *La Alameda de Paula, Havana
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==Gallery== <gallery mode="nolines"> File:Standard guide to Cuba - a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book (1909) (14779070654).jpg File:Scenes of Cuba (K5 02304) (5981484793).jpg File:El_Templete_-_panoramio.jpg File:Columbus-Memorial---Havana.jpg|"El Templete" in 1899 </gallery>
==External links== *[https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Jean-Baptiste-Vermay-Paintings-for-El-Templete-interior-visible-are-The-First-Mass_fig6_254237499 Jean-Baptiste Vermay, El Templete interior] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OsRRzrycR8 Restauración del Templete (Spanish)] *[https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/islandora/search/havana?type=dismax Archive of Historic Havana] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130062109/https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/islandora/search/havana?type=dismax |date=2024-01-30 }} {{Portal|Cuba}} {{Commons category}}
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