El Santuario de Chimayó

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El Santuario de Chimayó is a historic Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in northern New Mexico renowned for its sacred soil and status as one of the most important religious shrines in the United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman Catholic church
historic site
pilgrimage site
religious shrine
annualVisitors hundreds of thousands of pilgrims per year
architecturalStyle Spanish Colonial
associatedWith Hispano Catholic devotional traditions in New Mexico
Our Lord of Esquipulas devotion from Guatemala
folk Catholicism in the American Southwest
completionDate 1816
constructionStartDate 1813
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dedicatedTo Our Lord of Esquipulas
denomination Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
diocese Archdiocese of Santa Fe
surface form: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe
foundedBy Bernardo Abeyta NERFINISHED
GoodFridayPilgrims tens of thousands of pilgrims walk to the shrine on Good Friday
hasChapel Chapel of Our Lord of Esquipulas
Chapel of Santo Niño de Atocha
hasCollection ex-votos and discarded crutches left by pilgrims
hasFeature El Pocito (small pit of holy earth)
courtyard
cruciform floor plan
folk religious art
sacred soil
side chapels
thick adobe walls
wooden vigas
hasMaterial adobe
heritageDesignation National Historic Landmark
listed on the National Register of Historic Places
knownFor Good Friday pilgrimages
healing traditions
sacred earth believed to have curative powers
status as one of the most important Catholic pilgrimage sites in the United States
locatedIn Chimayó, New Mexico NERFINISHED
Rio Arriba County, New Mexico NERFINISHED
locatedInRegion northern New Mexico
nationalHistoricLandmarkDesignationYear 1970
nationalRegisterOfHistoricPlacesListingYear 1970
near Santa Cruz, New Mexico NERFINISHED
Santa Fe, New Mexico NERFINISHED
operatedBy Archdiocese of Santa Fe
pilgrimageType healing pilgrimage
religion Catholicism
significance important example of Spanish Colonial religious architecture in New Mexico
major center of Catholic pilgrimage in the United States
tourismType religious tourism

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National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico contains El Santuario de Chimayó
Northern New Mexico hasHistoricSite El Santuario de Chimayó
this entity surface form: El Santuario de Chimayo