Photograph of San Estevan Del Rey Mission Church — Photograph by Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

San Esteban del Rey Mission

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1629. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“San Estévan del Rey Mission Church is a Spanish mission church in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup on the Acoma Pueblo Reservation in western New Mexico. Built between 1629 and 1641, it is one of the finest extant examples of hybrid Spanish Colonial and Puebloan architectural styles.”
Wikipedia article San Estévan del Rey Mission Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Valencia County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · built in 1629 · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. On NM 23, Acoma, 87034
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. building
When was it built? 1629
National Register reference number. 70000417 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Acoma	0.1 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000417 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valencia County	All 18 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.