History
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San Miguel Chapel
Years Built: Construction began in 610 AD
Location: New Mexico, United States
Denomination: Multiple
Today: Still Operational
San Miguel Chapel
This particular house of prayer in New Mexico’s Santa Fe is professed to be the most seasoned Catholic church in the United States. It’s accepted to have been worked between 1610 (the year that Santa Fe was established) and 1626 by Tlaxcalan people group who came to New Mexico from the Mexican territory of Tlaxcala. The congregation is at first remembered to have been utilized by Tlaxcalan laborers and Spanish troopers who likewise showed up from Mexico.
The congregation was severely harmed on various occasions (once because of a fight between New Mexico’s Governor and church specialists, and later during the Pueblo Revolt, where native Pueblo individuals toppled Spanish colonizers), yet was generally fixed and modified. A three-story ringer tower added in 1848 was obliterated in a solid tempest in 1872, yet the ‘San Jose Bell’ made due and is in plain view inside the congregation.
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