Gran Quivira Pueblo Floor Plan and Mission Church

by Birgit Seeger-Brooks

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Gran Quivira Pueblo Floor Plan and Mission Church

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Birgit Seeger-Brooks

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GRAN QUIViRA
Gran Quivira lies 25 miles south of Mountainair on Route 55.
The Gran Quivira is by the best known of the Spanish pueblo mission churches. It is the largest ruin of any Christian temple existing in the United States.
At Gran Quivira, two missions were constructed high on a barren, winds-swept hill along side the Pueblo de las Humanas. The first church was called San Isidoro and was built in 1629 by Fray Juan Letrado and thirty years later a much larger and more imposing mission was built by Fray Diego de Santander. This church, which was called San Buenaventura , was never finished.
Unlike the missions at Abo and Quarai that were constructed of red sandstone, the pueblo and missions at Gran Quivera were constructed of red sandstone, the missions at Gran Quivera were built using thousands of pieces of carefully fitted limestone bound together with adobe mortar.
Prior to the coming of the Spaniards the Pueblo de las Humanas was an important trade center and the largest of the Salinas Pueblos (Quarai, Abo, Gran Quivira) and the only one that has been excavated.

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