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This building has 845m2 of space. However, since then, the library’s archives have outgrown the building and auxiliary buildings now house archives as well. Archives are now kept at the
Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro as well. The catalog is still maintained on cards, but a project called
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By the 1960s, the church building had fallen into disrepair and mostly abandoned. In 1962, it was acquired by the government and rehabilitated along with the part of the ex-convent it already owned to found the
Biblioteca del Congreso de la UniĂłn (Library of the Congress of the Union).
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574:Iglesia de San Bernardo
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559:Convent of Santa Inés
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