Pecos Pueblo Church New Mexico
by Tom Wurl
Title
Pecos Pueblo Church New Mexico
Artist
Tom Wurl
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
The ruins at Pecos are the standing remains of the eighteenth-century church. It has massive adobe walls and arched doorways. The inhabitants of Pecos were Tiwa-speaking Indians whose numbers eventually grew to 1,500 or 2,000 people. They were among the first North Americans to feel the impact of contact with Europeans. Less than fifty years after Columbus set foot in the New World, this pueblo was visited by the conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. Coronado came to Pecos after a trying and fruitless search for riches among the Zunis and Southern Tiwas. This is the ruins of the Franciscan Mission at Pecos Pueblo (built after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 on top of ruins of an earlier Mission.
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June 22nd, 2012
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