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Featured Photographer 📸 Barry B. Brown, aka @coralreefphotos on Instagram- "Beautiful and very historic #adobechurch in #zunipueblo" (at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYUkWVavHbu/?utm_medium=tumblr

El Santuario de Chimayó is a Roman Catholic church in Chimayó, New Mexico, United States. (Santuario is Spanish for "sanctuary".) This shrine, a National Historic Landmark, is famous for the story of its founding and as a contemporary pilgrimage site. It receives almost 300,000 visitors per year and has been called "no doubt the most important Catholic pilgrimage center in the United States.” The Santuario is on Juan Medina Drive in Chimayó. It is entered through a walled courtyard. Built of adobe with a bell tower on each side, the church is 60 feet long and 24 feet wide with walls more than 3 feet thick. Pointed caps on the towers and a metal pitched roof (blocking the clerestory) were added after 1917, probably in the 1920s. The "elegant" doors were carved by the 19th-century carpenter Pedro Domínguez. An unusual feature is two side-by-side rooms at the entrance forming a vestibule or narthex, once used for storage. The nave contains a crucifix representing Christ of Esquipulas, 6 feet tall. Other notable folk-art decorations include five reredoses and a small sculpture of St. James the Great. A small room called el pocito (the little well) contains a round pit, the source of "holy dirt" (tierra bendita) that is believed to have healing powers. An adjacent Prayer Room displays many ex-votos as well as photographs, discarded crutches, and other testimonials of those purportedly healed. REF: Wikipedia Photo Credit: Alice Lowe for the New Mexico Art Crawl #ArtandDesignMatters #adobechurch #RomanCatholicChurch #adobearchitecture #NationalHistoricLandmark #PilgrimageSite #ElSantuarioDeChimayo #ElSantuario #Chimayo #NewMexico #ChimayoNewMexico #VisitChimayo #VisitNewMexico #adobe #admNewMexicoArtCrawl #CultureTrip #CultureTravel #CultureTraveler #adventureTravel #architecture #RomanCatholic #CatholicChurch #HolyDirt #historicsite #NewMexicoHistory #historiclandmark #landmark #NewMexicoLandmark #NewMexicoCulture (at Chimayo, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-SMlFKgrnH/?igshid=2mxtrqhtvh8u

Angles in the Sun, St. Francis of Assisi, Ranchos de Taos, 2018. #adobechurch #saintfrancisofassisi #rsnchosdrtaos #newmexicolandscapephotos #southwestblackandwhitephotography #newmexicophotos #adobechurches #norlynnecoarphotographer (at Taos, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6tKgBFhYdi/?igshid=1n490ocu4wraj

A walk to the morada #taosnewmexico #newmexicotrue #adobe #adobechurch (at Taos, New Mexico)