Father Kino visited the Pima village of Coágibubig in 1687 and established the mission of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios. By 1694 a large church and living quarters were under construction. However, the building process was slow and it was not until 1699 that the walls were finally up and roofing was begun. During that year the church suffered rain damage. After that damage was repaired and the roof completed, the church was put into use.
Father Kino immediately began a building program that would include a large spacious church at both Remedios and at Cocóspera. Both churches were completed at the same time and are twins of each other. In January of 1704 Kino dedicated the two churches with a week of celebrations.
Both Remedios and Cocóspera
were subject to frequent Apache attacks so defense
towers were added to the churches. These, however were not very effective
and Apache attacks continued to decimate the population. Frequent
epidemics also took their toll on the population. In 1730 the church
at Remedios was in ruins and it was completely abandoned by 1740.
Nothing remains of the church at Remedios, but one can get an idea of what
it would have looked like by viewing pictures of the church at Cocóspera.