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Coolest pueblo mission in my view is Acoma Pueblo because the interior is awesome and during the Pueblo revolt they didn't destroy it like most pueblos did (even though they went back to their old faith). They don't use it as an active church but they do rituals in there a few times a year and on easter they invite a pastor to do a sermon and they walk miles and miles up the mesa to the church and do half sermon half native ritual they seem to be the least responsive to Christianity of any Pueblo which is ironic because they are the only one I think who didn't have their original mission church destroyed in their revolt.
I really like the one in Isleta Pueblo too. No photos allowed even of the exterior (if you're not a native) but it's not visited by outsiders for that reason and the town it's in is ancient in a part of the rez nobody reallt goes to because it's not by the casinos or Rv parking.
Pic related is Chimayo which is still a big pilgramge site for Hispanos and puebloans. It was a puebloan holy site because of the magic dirt. The spanish built a church there and people still come from all over, sometimes on foot, to use the magic dirt. It's a whole mission complex with hispano culture it's great. It's in a part of NM between Taos and SF where all the little towns are old land grants by the Spanish crown and feel left in time.
