This study focuses on Mexico’s participation in international expositions from the late nineteenth century up to the Ibero-American Exhibition in Seville in 1929. Through examining the architecture used in Mexico’s constructions for these events, the creation of the national identity can be observed. Of particular interested to us is the Moorish pavilion built for the New Orleans exposition of 1884. Drawing on the neo-Arabic aesthetic, it was based at compositional level on the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and, at decorative level, on the architecture of al-Andalus and, more specifically, the Alhambra in Granada.
International expositions, neo-Arabic, Mexican identity, Alhambrism.