User:Tillman/Spanish missions in NM

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[edit] Missions

Quarai Mission church, 1940. Photo: George A. Grant
Quarai Mission church, 1940. Photo: George A. Grant
  • Mission Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Zia
  • Mission Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Porciúncula de los Pecos founded in 17th century, ruins are part of the Pecos National Monument
  • Mission Nuestra Señora de Purísima Concepción de Quarai founded in 17th century, ruins are part of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
  • Mission San Agustín de la Isleta - Built in 1612.
  • Mission San Buenaventura de Cochiti - Completed in 1628, renovated in the 1960's.
  • Mission San Esteban del Rey de Acoma - Established 1629 and completed in 1641, in continuous use.[1]
  • Mission San Felipe - Built on the site of a previous church (1706)
  • Mission San Gregorio de Abó - Established in 1640 by Fray Francisco Acevedo
  • Mission San Ildefonso - The original mission church was built in 1711, but was later destroyed.
  • Mission San Isidro and Mission San Buenaventura de Humanas (Gran Quivira) - the ruins are part of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
  • Mission San José (Giusewa) de Jémez - Established in 1627, now in ruins.
  • Mission Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
  • Mission San Lorenzo
  • Mission San Antonio de Senecu
  • Mission Corpus Christi de San Antonio de la Ysleta del Sur - built between 1680 and 1682 by Tigua speaking and Spanish refugees of the Pueblo Revolt [2]
  • Mission La Purísima Socorro - built between 1680 and 1682 by the Piro, Tano and Jemez peoples who accompanied or were forced to accompany the Spaniards fleeing the 1680 Pueblo Revolt.
  • Mission San José de Laguna - built in 1699.
  • Mission San Lorenzo de Picurís
  • Mission San Miguel (originally Mission Nuestra Señora de Perpétuo Socorro)
  • San Miguel Mission Chapel - The oldest church still in use in the United States.
  • Mission Santa Ana - Completed in 1750.
  • Mission Santo Domingo - The original mission church was destroyed by flooding of the Rio Grande.
  • El Santuario de Chimayó - Site of an Easter pilgrimage by foot to the holy spot every year. Not a mission.
  • Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe - Founded c. 1777; believed to be nation's oldest shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Not a mission.
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