San Francisco Acatepec church, Baroque church in San Andrés Cholula, Mexico.

San Francisco Acatepec church has a facade of Talavera tiles in orange, yellow, white and blue, with a curved gable, a star-shaped niche and two towers, the right taller. Inside, a barrel-vaulted nave is covered in gilded relief around a sunburst medallion, with a gilded altarpiece and a crystal chandelier.

Franciscans founded a small convent here in the 16th century and began a church on the site in 1560. The present building was started in the second half of the 17th century; church records give 1724 as the start of works, and a painting inside suggests completion around 1730. Its Talavera tiles were made by hand between 1650 and 1750. A fire on 31 December 1939 damaged the interior, which the Cholula Pantle family, plasterers, rebuilt over 25 years.

The facade's Talavera tiles carry symbolic colours: white and blue for the Virgin Mary, green and yellow for Saint Joseph. Inside, the gilded plasterwork was rebuilt after the 1939 fire by the Pantle family of Cholula, a 25-year job; unlike nearby Santa María Tonantzintla, the interior does not show indigenous iconography. The church's patron is Saint Francis of Assisi, shown in its stained glass.

The church stands in the town of San Francisco Acatepec, part of the municipality of San Andrés Cholula, in the Puebla metropolitan area. The atrium is entered through a mixtilinear arch from the 17th century, with a main door and two side doors. Inside, the Latin-cross plan runs from the choir and sotocoro to the transept and chancel, with the sacristy on the south side of the transept.

A fire in 1939 destroyed much of the interior, yet the Pantle family from Cholula spent decades restoring the decorative elements using age-old methods. Their work brought back the intricate gilding and stucco details that make the space special today.