This 19th-century site traces its origins back to November 7, 1653, when the city council requested land from the Carmelite religious order at the San Elías pasture, where the municipal cemetery was established. During the Porfiriato era, from 1879 to 1886, the San Elías cemetery was renovated. In 1893, a typhus epidemic devastated the population, prompting health authorities to build a mortuary chapel within the cemetery so that the deceased would no longer be mourned at home. In 1966, thanks to the initiative of Luis Ferreira, a new chapel was constructed to replace the one built at the end of the 19th century.