Get thee to a nunn’ry!

Or, get thee to Henington Fine Art Gallery, where the nunnery attached to the historic, eighteenth-century Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe church once operated. That church, known today as the Santuario de Guadalupe, is an unassuming adobe structure, an exemplar of Spanish Colonial architecture, housing the Archdiocese of Santa Fe's collection of New Mexican santos (carved images of the saints), Italian Renaissance paintings, and Mexican baroque paintings. Included among the holdings is a large and valuable portrait in oils, Our Lady of Guadalupe, dated 1783 and signed by Jose de Alzibar, one of Mexico's most renowned painters.

The old nunnery, newly renovated by the Hennington Fine Art Gallery and Epazote now houses the galllery and restaurant.  The new establishments present a modern complement to the museum artifacts across the street in the Santuario. A hand-painted wall mural is lovingly preserved in the gallery’s eastern-most room that leads to a shaded courtyard where the nuns once rested and contemplated the beauty of their surrounds.