Mission San Gregorio de Abo

 (1621-1673) - A Spanish mission established in 1621 by Fray Francisco Fonte near present-day Mountain Air, Torrance County, New Mexico. Abandoned in 1673, only ruins remain today. The Mission San Gregorio de Abo was founded about 1621 by Fray Francisco Fonte as one of the twenty-one Spanish missions founded in New Mexico. The large San Gregorio de Abo Church and Convento were completed by 1629.

The Mission Abo was largely abandoned by 1673, due to a series of droughts, disease and Apache raids that made life in the area precarious. The surviving inhabitants of Abo are believed to have joined their Piro-speaking relatives along the Rio Grande. By 1678, the pueblo was entirely abandoned.

Current Status
Now part of the Abo Unit of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument containing some 370 acres. Access to the site of the ruins and the pueblo is through the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, which offers interpreted tours and self-guided walks. It is now possible to walk directly around and within the old walls of the Abo mission church and the surrounding unexcavated pueblo structures.

See Also:
 * New Mexico Missions

Sources:
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Links:
 * HABS NM,29-ABOP Abo Mission Drawings
 * NPS - Mission San Gregorio de Abo