San Agustín de la Isleta Mission
| San Agustín de la Isleta Mission | |
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San Agustín de la Isleta Mission, 1925
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 San Agustín de la Isleta Mission
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| 34°54′32.4″N 106°41′36.0″W / 34.909000°N 106.693333°WCoordinates: 34°54′32.4″N 106°41′36.0″W / 34.909000°N 106.693333°W | |
| Location | Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico |
| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Franciscan |
| History | |
| Founded | 1622 |
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| Architect(s) | Juan de Salas |
| Completed | 1629/1630 |
San Agustín de la Isleta Mission, founded in 1622, was a Spanish Mission in what is now Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. It was a religious outpost established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, to spread Christianity among the local Native Americans.
Isleta Pueblo is the name of two pueblos of the ancient Tiwa (Spanish: Tigua) tribe, connected culturally and by language to other tribes of the Tanoan language family. Older historians thought they were related distantly to Shoshonean peoples. The San Agustin de la Isleta Mission was founded on the older pueblo, on the west bank of the Rio Grande about 13 miles (21 km) south of Albuquerque.
The original Isleta (i.e. islet) was so named by the Spaniards from its position on a tongue of land projecting into the stream; the native name, Shiewhibak, seems to refer to a knife used in connection with a certain ceremonial foot race. The village was first entered by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540. In 1582-3 Espejo (q.v.) visited the pueblo while trying to ascertain the fate of Father Rodriguez and two other Franciscan missionaries, who had been murdered a year earlier by native people in the vicinity.
The Franciscan friar Juan de Salas came to New Mexico with Alonso de Benavides in 1622. Salas probably built the San Antonio "convent" at Isleta around 1629 or 1630. At a later period, the mission received many refugees from outlying pueblos abandoned because of Apache raids, By the outbreak of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, it may have numbered 2000 people. The numerous Spanish settlers resisted the revolt with few casualties. They burned down the pueblo. The Tiwa accompanied some of the Spanish colonists, moving south to El Paso, Texas to the Ysleta Mission del Sur.
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