Congregation Beit Tikva started at a Passover Seder in April of 1995. The group met in a private home every Friday night for services after the first
The settlement of New Mexico’s Ashkenazi Jews from Germany and other European countries began with the merchants who traversed the Santa Fe Trail from 1848
In the 1930s, a small group of business owners in Santa Fe started a branch of B’nai B’rith, which means “sons of the covenant” in
An on-going papal connection was ever-present in the life of the late artist Andrea “Drew” Bacigalupa. The artist died in March 2015 at the age
The novena to La Conquistadora ends today. Tomorrow she will be taken back to the Basilica Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi. Every year on
Santa Fe artist Olive Rush came from a long line of Quakers. They were followers of the 17th-century religious leader, George Fox. Known as the
The custom of processions in Santa Fe began in 1598 when Don Juan de Oñate and the founding families settled the region for the Spanish
When Guy Ballard died in 1939 his wife Edna and their son, Donald, moved to Santa Fe. In 1942 they began the “I AM” Sanctuary
In October of 1850, Methodist minister Rev. E.G. Nicholson arrived in Santa Fe from Independence, Mo.. He preached his first sermon to a small congregation
When Connie Hernandez died in 2015 a part of Santa Fe history came to an end. Her family had been caretakers of La Conquistadora for
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