This guide and history features over seventy-five churches to be found in Santa Fe and its neighboring rural communities. It is illustrated with maps and photographs of each church.
Marie Romero Cash was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is the daughter of nationally recognized tinsmiths Emilio and Senaida Romero. She is a practicing folk artist, and in 1987 she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to survey and document pieces of Spanish colonial art.
Jack Parsons is a photographer with a long career of documenting the cultures and landscapes of the Southwest. His photographs are included in numerous publications including El Rancho de las Golondrinas: Living History in New Mexico's La Cienega Valley, Low 'n Slow: Lowriding in New Mexico, and Spanish New Mexico: The Spanish Colonial Arts Society Collection (all published by the Museum of New Mexico Press).