La Morada de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Religious sanctuary in Taos County, United States.
La Morada de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, or Taos Morada, is an adobe building in Taos, New Mexico, completed in 1834. It served as a meeting house for La Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno, the Penitent Brothers. The grounds include the Calvario, and the interior remains private.
The land was granted between 1797 and 1798 by Taos Pueblo authorities, with construction finished in 1834 under Padre Antonio José Martínez. Ownership changed hands several times over later decades, including a period when the Kit Carson Memorial Foundation held it before returning to the Catholic Church.
The Hermanos Penitentes, a lay Catholic brotherhood, used the morada for study and devotional practice rooted in traditions that came from Spain. Devotions were suspended after the 1977 sale and restoration, then sanctioned again by the museum board; Hermanos from moradas across northern New Mexico resumed exercises during Holy Week, beginning April 11, 2006.
The grounds are open to visitors during daylight hours, though the interior spaces require permission from religious authorities to enter. It is best to contact those in charge beforehand if you wish to see inside and visit respectfully.
The 1977 sale to the Kit Carson Memorial Foundation went against the wishes of Taos clergy, parishioners and the remaining Hermanos. Restoration money came from the National Park Service, the state Historic Preservation Office and CETA funds, but the work barred Hermanos devotions until the museum board sanctioned them in 2005.
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