Dust to dust? The fight to save old adobe churches
Frank Graziano, of the nonprofit Nuevo Mexico Profundo, which helps restore old churches in the region, stands outside the San Jose de Gracia Catholic Church, in Las Trampas, New Mexico, in mid-April.
(AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales)
CORDOVA, New Mexico (AP) — Ever since missionaries started building churches out of mud 400 years ago in what was the isolated frontier of the Spanish empire, tiny mountain communities like Cordova relied on their own resources to keep the faith going.
Thousands of miles from religious and lay seats of power, everything from priests to sculptors to paint pigments was hard to come by...
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