The temple of the Sun or Koricancha is located in the southern part of the city of Cusco. This is a classic example of the fusion of Inca and Western cultures, and was one of the most important temples in the Tahuantinsuyu.Its finely polished walls made of stone were used as the foundations of the Convent of Santo Domingo. The temple, whose walls were said to have been sheathed in gold and silver, was dedicated to sun worship, as well as containing images of the gods of thunder and Wiracocha, deities brought from various regions and the mummified bodies of Inca rulers.Worship within the temple was reserved for the highest-ranking figures of the era, and it was visited by representatives of distant, non-Inca communities all over the empire to render reverence to the gods of the Tahuantinsuyu.
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In the second half of the seventeenth century, one of the most important schools of Colonial American art was created at Cusco. To the art of Spanish origin, the artists of Cusco, mainly natives and mestizos, added their own perceptions of religious ideas, using different colors and inserting their own cultural motifs such as local flora, fauna and clothing styles.