metro station is a station of the Mexico City Metro in the city's boroughs of Gustavo A. Madero and Cuauhtémoc. It is an underground railway stop with two side platforms serving Line 5 (Yellow Line), between and . It was opened on 1 July 1982, providing service north toward La Raza and east toward station.
metro station services the (neighborhoods) of and , along . The station's name references the nearby , an avenue with multiple hermitages depicting the Catholic Mysteries of the Rosary. Its pictogram depicts the silhouette of one of these constructions.
Outside, there are multiple bus routes, and nearby is the eponymous Metrobús station serving Line 7. In 2025, metro station had an average daily ridership of 6,576 passenger entries, ranking it the 164th busiest stop in the network.
Location and layout
is an underground metro station on Line 5 below , at the segment. The station is found in the limits of the boroughs of and , in northern Mexico City. The station serves the ("neighborhoods") of , Gustavo A. Madero, and , Cuauhtémoc. It has two exits leading to and : the northern exit serves , while the southern exit serves .
Within the system, metro station lies between and . The area is serviced by of the city's public bus system, Route 200 of the network, Line 7 of the Metrobús system at Misterios bus station, a few blocks away, and Line 4 (formerly Line G) of the trolleybus system.
History and construction
Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by , a subsidiary of . The section including metro station formed part of a northward extension from metro station, and opened on 1 July 1982, while running eastward toward metro station. During construction, workers uncovered part of a road that connected Tenochtitlan with the Tepeyac hill. The road was built with materials dating back to the Mesoamerican Postclassic Period.
Originally, Line 8, which runs from the historic center of Mexico City to in Iztapalapa, was originally planned to follow a different route, from in eastern Mexico City to in the north, with a stop at Misterios. However, the project was canceled due to potential structural issues it would have caused near the Zócalo area, as it was intended to interchange with Line 2 at its respective metro station. The plan for Line 8 was later modified to run from to , still stopping at . But its construction did not progress beyond , which has served as the line's provisional terminal since 1994.
The section between and station descends from street level to the underground level and measures , while the opposite section toward station is long.
Name and pictogram The station is named after the nearby , an avenue connecting the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe with . The avenue has fifteen hermitages built in the 17th century, each representing one of the Mysteries of the Rosary. The station's pictogram represents one of these hermitages.
Incidents A train's railway coupler broke on 21 April 2020 near the station. From 23 April to 15 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the pandemic in Mexico. On 21 February 2021, a train window was ejected in the tunnel between and , causing a short circuit.
Ridership
According to official data, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the station recorded between 8,000 and 8,400 average daily entries from 2016 to 2019. In 2025, it recorded 2,400,344 passenger entries, ranking 164th among the system's 195 stations.
Annual passenger ridership Year Ridership Average daily Rank % change Ref. 2025 2,400,344 6,576 164/195 2024 2,520,516 6,886 152/195 2023 2,518,389 6,899 142/195 2022 2,347,498 6,431 145/195 2021 1,696,494 4,647 149/195 2020 1,471,058 4,019 170/195 2019 2,953,802 8,092 164/195 2018 3,061,616 8,387 163/195 2017 3,000,250 8,219 163/195 2016 2,985,039 8,155 165/195
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