Dust to dust? New Mexico villages fight to save their historic adobe churches from crumbling back into the dirt-and-straw mixture they were made of.
An exterior view of the San Jose de Gracia Catholic Church, built in 1760, in Las Trampas, New Mexico, Friday, April 14, 2023. Threatened by depopulation, dwindling congregations and fading traditions, some faithful are fighting to save their historic adobe churches and the uniquely New Mexican way of life they represent. An exterior view of the San Jose de Gracia Catholic Church, built in 1760, in Las Trampas, New Mexico, Friday, April 14, 2023.
Thousands of miles from religious and lay seats of power, everything from priests to sculptors to paint pigments was hard to come by. Villagers instituted lay church caretakers called “mayordomos,” and filled chapels with elaborate altarpieces made of local wood and varnished with pine sap.
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