New Mexico Mission Churches
New Mexico Mission Churches

Author: Donna Blake Birchell

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1467144932

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Before Spanish rule, the land now known as New Mexico was inhabited by many indigenous tribes and pueblos with their own religious beliefs. When conquistadors arrived to search for the Seven Cities of Gold, they created settlements in the pueblos they conquered and forced Catholicism on the people they enslaved. While several of these original missions were destroyed during the Revolt of 1680, the surviving churches are cherished by the communities they now serve. Author Donna Blake Birchell guides you through the unique histories of more than twenty mission churches, their struggles and triumphs over the centuries and the preservation challenges they now face.

The Missions of New Mexico, 1776
The Missions of New Mexico, 1776

Author: Francisco Atanasio Domínguez

Publisher: Sunstone Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0865348693

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Adams and Chavez polish a unique window on late 18th-century New Mexico, providing a seamless translation of Father Domnguez's original work as well as explanatory materials.

Historic Churches of New Mexico Today
Historic Churches of New Mexico Today

Author: Frank Graziano

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0190663502

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This interpretive guide combines history and ethnography to represent living traditions at the adobe and stone churches of New Mexico. Each chapter treats a particular church or group of churches and includes photographs, practical information for visitors, and context pertinent to current understanding. Frank Graziano provides unprecedented coverage of the churches by combining his extensive fieldwork with research in archives and previous scholarship. The book is written in an engaging narrative prose that brings the reader inside of congregations in Indian and Hispanic villages. The focus is less on church buildings than on people in relation to churches -- parishioners, caretakers, priests, restorers -- and on the author's experiences researching among them.

Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico
Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico

Author: Marc Treib

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780520064201

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Description and history of the early churches and missions in New Mexico.

The Mexican Mission
The Mexican Mission

Author: Ryan Dominic Crewe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1108492541

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Offers a social history of the Mexican mission enterprise, emphasizing the centrality of indigenous politics, economics, and demographic catastrophe.

John Gaw Meem at Acoma
John Gaw Meem at Acoma

Author: Kate Wingert-Playdon

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 082635209X

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Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in west-central New Mexico is the oldest and largest intact adobe structure in North America. But in the 1920s, in danger of becoming a ruin, the building was restored in a cooperative effort among Acoma Pueblo, which owned the structure, and other interested parties. Kate Wingert-Playdon's narrative of the restoration and the process behind it is the only detailed account of this milestone example of historic preservation, in which New Mexico's most famous architect, John Gaw Meem, played a major role.