Miraculous Staircase Santa Fe. The Miraculous Staircase, Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe Stock Photo Alamy In the heart of historic Santa Fe, New Mexico we attract people from all over the world who want to find out more about our revered, "miraculous staircase." The chapel is a historic phenomenon that must be witnessed during your travels. One of the biggest legends told in the Santa Fe area is that of the "miraculous spiral staircase" ascending to the choir loft at the Loretto Chapel
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The Loretto Santa Fe's unique architecture, serene atmosphere, and friendly staff make it a memorable experience for visitors The legend that began in the early 20th century and is repeated ad nauseam over loud speakers inside the chapel today, goes like this.
Miraculous staircase spiral of Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe New Mexico USA Stock Photo Alamy
Three mysteries surround the Miraculous Staircase at the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe: who built it, the engineering behind its construction, and the materials used. The Loretto chapel is open 364 days a year except Christmas Day. According to Historic Mysteries, the legend states that when Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was nearing its completion in the late 1880s, the architect died before he was able to design a staircase that could access the choir loft.
Miraculous Staircase at the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, NM Staircase design, Loretto chapel. Questions also surround the number of stair risers relative to the height of the choir loft and about the types of wood and other materials used in the stairway's construction. The Loretto Chapel is a former Roman Catholic church in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, that is now a privately owned museum and a wedding chapel
Santa Fe Loretto chapel 'Miraculous Staircase' Stock Photo Alamy. It was here that in the 1800s seven nuns set up a school for girls, and when it was time, they built a chapel In 1869, Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy hired two French architects Antoine Mouly and his son Projectus to construct the mother church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, the Cathedral Basilica of St.