My Shot of the Day: Moonrise Over Our Lady of Guadalupe

May 4, 2012
My Shot of the Day, New Mexico, USA, North America

Moonrise over Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Taos, New Mexico. Thursday, May 3, 2012.

ISO 100, f/18, 1/20s with a Nikkor 55-300mm lens.

On Nov. 18, 1801 in Durango, Bishop Olivares granted permission to the community of Taos to build a

The waxing gibbous of May 3, 2012

church. The adobe structure was completed in 1802. In 1833 Bishop Zubiria, of Durango, decreed that Our Lady of Guadalupe could become a parish and it was then that the new church of the pregnant Virgin was built on the northwest side of the Taos Plaza.

Taos NM Churches

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