Tray Rivera

Architecturally, sedate. The original chapel is early 17th century, with repairs and additions added throughout the centuries. The reredos dates to 1798, although it has undergone many alterations and additions. It was a ‘slow’ day when I visited, yet the exhibit space and the narthex area were a bit crowded due to the diminutive size of the chapel. The story about the indigenous laborers who built the original chapel is ambiguous: slave labor or not? The site upon which the chapel was built was an important site to the indigenous Puebloans.