Nunnery Anex:
The Nunnery Annex is located immediately adjacent to the Nunnery and while it is from the early Maya period of Chichén Itzá,
it shows some influence of later residence.
This building is of the Chenes style, which is a local Yucatan style.
It has a lattice motif on the roof comb, complete with Chac masks,
but it also includes an undulating serpent running along its cornice.
The decoration begins at the base and goes up to the cornice,
with the façade completely covered with several rain god masks with a central richly clad human figure over the doorway.
A hieroglyphic inscription is on the lintel.

But the best thing about the Nunnery Annex is that, from a distance,
the whole building is a chac mask,
with the human figure as the nose and the doorway the mouth of the mask._

The Church:
This building (on the right) was named la Iglesia (the Church) by the Spanish,
probably simply because it was located right next to the Nunnery.
This rectangular building is of classic Puuc construction with an overlay of central Yucatan styles (Chenes).
This is probably one of the most freqently drawn and photographed buildings at Chichén Itzá;
famous 19th century drawings were made by both Frederick Catherwood and Desiré Charnay.
The Iglesia is rectangular with a single room inside and an entrance on the west side.
The outside wall is completely covered with veneer decorations,
which extend clear up to the roof comb.
The frieze is bounded at ground level by a stepped fret motif and above by a serpent;
the stepped fret motif is repeated on the bottom of the roof comb.
The most important motif of the decoration is the Chac god mask with a hooked nose standing out on the corners of the building.
In addition, there are four figures in pairs between the masks including an armadillo,
a snail, a turtle, and a crab, who are the four "bacabs" who hold up the sky in Maya mythology.


A 2-image wide panorama with lots of rich detail