In Santa Fe, the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is honored within the parish’s santuario. Outside, a 12-foot bronze statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe stands near the entrance, its base often decorated with fresh roses. Parishioners accompanied the statue from Mexico City, where it was cast in bronze, to Santa Fe in 2008.
Church is converting a weedy slope in front of its parking lot into a shrine that tells the story of the iconic Our Lady of Guadalupe. The church also will create an Institute for Guadalupe Studies and a Marian Resource Center and Library in the old Guadalupe School and Convent across Agua Fría Street.
The area will be called “Santa Fe’s Hill of Tepeyac.”
“It’s a place where people can come and look for resources about Our Lady of Guadalupe,” Nguyen said.
The Santa Fe Hill of Tepeyac is “a wonderful way to pay honor to our Mother,” parishioner Diana Lujan said.
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July 6, 2011 | Categories: Adobe Churches, Christian Photography, Churches, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Hand Carved Crosses, Historic Churches, Holy Family, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, Madonna, Mission Churches, Mother of God, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Nuestra Senora, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Outdoor Photography, Photography, Rustic Crosses, Saints and Martyers, Sanctuario, Santa Fe, Shrine, Stone Churches, Traditional Crosses, Vintage Crosses | Tags: Abobe Churches, Bronze Statue, Christian, Churches, Cross, Cross of the Day, CrossoftheDay, Karen Rivera, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Photography, Santa Fe, Santuario, Tepeyac | Leave a comment
The Airforce Academy Chapel
Photography by Neil Talbott
Neil Talbott’s Colorado Photography can be seen and purchased at his studio #105 at Cottonwood Center for the Arts, 427 E. Colorado Avenue in downtown Colorado Springs, CO. Can’t make it in person? Email Neil or reach him at (719) 523-0499.
July 5, 2011 | Categories: Art, Christian, Christian Photography, Churches, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Community, Cross of the Day, CrossoftheDay, Inspirational Artwork, Inspirational Photography, Mountain Splendor, Neil Talbott, Outdoor Photography, Photography, Shrine, The Air Force Academy Chapel | Tags: Airforce Academy Chapel, Balance Rock, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Cross, Cross of the Day, CrossoftheDay, Historic Site, Inspirational Photography, Neil Talbott, Outdoor Photography, Photography, Religious Art, Scenic Photography, Wayside Attraction | 2 Comments
Nambe Cemetery
Nambe Pueblo, New Mexico
Karen Rivera
January 2011
I shoot a lot of cemetaries. For heart-rending, technicolor boisterous displays, you just can’t beat a New Mexican cemetary on Easter, Day of the Dead or Christmas. I’ve made it to my favorite, the Nambe Church cemetary in Nambe, every Boxing Day for most of the last 20 years. I follow that up with New Year’s Day in Acoma. It seems to make the perfect emotional double-header.
I found this small, weathered cross tucked away in a far corner surrounded by tumbleweeds and scruffy dead plants. The new flowers shows that this lonely hidden grave hadn’t been forgotten.
July 4, 2011 | Categories: Adobe Churches, Art, Cemetery Crosses, Churches, Community, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Folk Art, Historic Churches, Inspirational Photography, Mission Churches, Mountain Churches, Nambe, New Mexico, New Mexico Photography, Northern New Mexico, Religious Art, Shrine, Story Crosses, Traditional Crosses, Village Churches, Vintage Crosses | Tags: Adobe Church, Art, Carved Cross, Carved Wooden Crosses, Cemetery, Cross, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Descansos, Folk Art, Graveyard Crosses, Graveyards, Hand Carved, Hand Painted, Karen Rivera, mission church, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Outdoor Photography by Karen Rivera, Photography, Road Trips, southwest, Southwest Crosses, Wayside Attraction | Leave a comment
Church Tower with Cross, Chimayo
Chimayo, New Mexico
Karen Rivera 2007
November 18, 2010 | Categories: Adobe Churches, Art, Cemetery Crosses, Chimayo, Churches, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Graveyard Crosses, Hand Carved Crosses, Historic Churches, Karen Rivera, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Rustic Crosses, Saints and Martyers, Sanctuario, Santa Fe, Shrine, Traditional Crosses, Village Churches, Vintage Crosses | Tags: Abobe Churches, Cemetery Crosses, Chimayo, Church Tower, Cross, Cross of the Day, CrossoftheDay, Hand Carved, Karen Rivera, Mission Churches, Mountain Churches, New Mexico, New Mexico Photography, Northern New Mexico, Old Churches, Photography, Road Trip, Sanctuario, Village Churches | Leave a comment
Church at Sanctuario, 1950’s
Chimayo, New Mexico
Scanned Vintage Postcard
Karen Rivera
This vintage postcard of Sanctuario left me stunned. I’ve shot hundreds of photographs of the church but I never saw it as a real small Northern New Mexican town chuch like those scattered all over the state until I found this postcard.
November 16, 2010 | Categories: Adobe Churches, Art, Cemetery Crosses, Chimayo, Churches, Community, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Descansos, Folk Art, Graveyard Crosses, Hand Carved Crosses, Historic Churches, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, Mountain Churches, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Patron Saints, Religious Art, Rustic Crosses, Saints, Saints and Martyers, Sanctuario, Santa Fe, Santos, Shrine, Spirituality, Stone Churches | Tags: Adobe Casas, Adobe Churches, Architectural Detail, Art, Artists, Black Iron, Blue Doors, Chimayo, Churches, Georgia okeefe country, Graveyards, Hand Carved, Hand Crafted, Hand Painted, High Road to Taos, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, Mission Churches, New Mexico, New Mexico Photography, Northern New Mexico, Nuestra Senora, Patron Saints, Photography, Religious Art, Road Trips, Saints and Martyrs, Sanctuario, Santos, Scenic View, Shrine, St. Francis de Assisi, Stonework, Village Churches, Vintage Photographs, Wayside Attraction | Leave a comment
Punta de Agua
Highway 55, Southern New Mexico
Karen Rivera
The small villages along Highway 55 have always held a special place in my hard-scrabble New Mexican heart. Using the few resources available in the barren, harsh acres early settlers recycled the ever-present rocks into homes, walls, and churches.
In Punta de Agua, the rough-cut stone San Antonio Church stands as a monument to an earlier example of sustainable and green building.
If you’d like to walk through Punta de Agua at street level, click here to go to Google Maps, then click satellite.
November 16, 2010 | Categories: Adobe Churches, Art, Cemetery Crosses, Churches, Community, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Graveyard Crosses, Hand Carved Crosses, Historic Churches, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, Mission Churches, Mountain Churches, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Patron Saints, Rustic Crosses, Saints and Martyers, Santos, Southern New Mexico, Spirituality, Stone Churches, Traditional Crosses | Tags: Architectural Detail, Blue Doors, Churches, Classic Churches, Classic Mountains, Classics, Cross of the Day, Crosses, Hand Carved, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, Manzano, Mission Churches, Mountainair, New Mexico, New Mexico Photography, Outdoor Photography, Patron Saints, Photography, Religious Art, Road Signs, Road Trips, Saints and Martyrs, San Antonio, Santos, Scenic View, Stone Churches, Village Churches, Wayside Attraction | Leave a comment
The Assisi Sisters
Hanging with Claire and Agnes in Taos
July 2010
Karen Rivera
August 5, 2010 | Categories: Art, Community, Cross of the Day, Crosses, CrossoftheDay, Folk Art, Hand Carved Crosses, Hand Painted, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, New Mexico, Northern New Mexico, Saints, Santos, Shrine, Spirituality, St. Agnes, Taos | Tags: Art, Assisi, Cross of the Day, CrossoftheDay, Folk Art, High Road to Taos, Inspirational Photography, Karen Rivera, New Mexico, New Mexico Photography, Northern New Mexico, Patron Saints, Photography, Religious Art, Road Trips, Saints, Santos, Shrine, Spirituality, St. Angnes, St. Claire, Taos, Wayside Attraction | Leave a comment
The Assisi Sisters