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13960 CHURCH AT ACOMA, N. M.
COPR. FRED HARVEY.
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The Pueblo of Acoma was conquered
several times by the soldiers of Spain.
The Conquest for the Cross was made
in 1829 by Fray Juan Romirez, who re-
mained among the Acomas for twenty
years and built the first church that
the Southwest had ever known. This
church was destroyed in 1680 during
a Pueblo revolt. In 1689 the huge
church now at Acoma, which has
walls 60 feet high and 10 feet thick,
was commenced. The church must
have cost the labor of many genera-
tions for every particle of the material
used in its construction was carried
up from the plains below.
THIS SPACE MAY BE USED FOR MESSAGE.
