San Francisco de Asís Mission Church is a historic and architecturally significant building on the main plaza of Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Originally the center of a small Mexican and Indian 18th Century agricultural community.

San Francisco de Asís is an 18th century adobe National Historic Landmark. It is an active church which includes the outlying “Capillas” of Nuestra Senora del Carmen in Llano Quemado, San Isidro in Los Cordovas, and Nuestra Senora de San Juan de Los Lagos in Talpa.

2023年12月30日 · Completed in 1816, the San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church is a large, sculpted Spanish Colonial church with massive adobe buttresses and two front-facing bell towers.

The Mission San Francisco de Asís (Spanish: Misión San Francisco de Asís), also known as Mission Dolores, is a historic Catholic church complex in San Francisco, California.

The centerpiece of Ranchos de Taos is the San Francisco de Asís church, a beautiful example of Spanish Colonial architecture. Of the original churches built in the Taos area, it is the only one that is still intact and actively serving a congregation.

San Francisco de Asis Church is a still-active 18th-century parish that, thanks to Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keeffe, became a modern art icon—and a quintessential Taos landmark. It’s one of New Mexico’s most photographed churches.

San Francisco de Asís Church is a late example of Spanish Colonial architecture and a case study in modern preservation practices. Made iconic in paintings and photographs by artists like Georgia O’Keefe and Ansel Adams, the church is now fixed in the popular imagination as an archetypical image of New Mexico.

Built with mud, straw, and sun-dried adobe bricks, the San Francisco de Asís church stands as one of the few remaining original buildings in Taos. It serves as a testament to the enduring faith and devotion of the Hispanic Catholic community, who have worked tirelessly to preserve their religious traditions to this very day.

Having survived the great earthquake and fire of 1906, the mission church is the oldest intact building in the city of San Francisco and the only intact Mission Chapel in the chain of twenty-one established under the direction of Father Serra.

Interesting facts: The mission survived the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 practically unscathed. The church ceiling is covered with chevron designs painted by native artists.