I've attempted to take photos of this Cathedral twice whenever I'm in Santa Fe. Once at Christmas when it was under major renovation today when I was there for just a couple of hours....there was a wedding. Stubborn as I am, I waited, put more money in the parking meter and finally got to go in. However, this statue outside is lovely....the sunlight rays really caputure the day....warm and cool.
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, commonly known as Saint Francis Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
The cathedral was built by Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy between 1869 and 1886 on the site of an older adobe church, La Parroquia (built in 1714-1717). An even earlier church on the same site, built in 1626, had been destroyed in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. The new cathedral was built around La Parroquia, which was dismantled once construction was complete. A small chapel on the north side of the cathedral is all that remains of the old church.
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