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x Mission San Francisco de Asís Mission San Francisco de Asís   Spanish missions in California Listed Site
Mission San Francisco de Asís is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the sixth religious settlement established as part of the California chain of missions. The Mission was founded on June 29, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga...
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x Mission San Miguel Arcángel Mission San Miguel Arcángel   Spanish missions in California Location
Mission San Miguel Arcángel was founded on July 25, 1797 by the Franciscan order, on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize. It is located at 775...
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x Mission Santa Clara de Asís Mission Santa Clara de Asís   Spanish missions in California Structure
Mission Santa Clara de Asís was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Clare of Assisi, the founder of the order of the Poor Clares. Although ruined and rebuilt six times, the settlement was never abandoned. The first mission to be built to honor...
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x Mission Santa Inés Mission Santa Ines   Spanish missions in California Location
Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynes) was founded on September 17, 1804 by Father Estévan Tapís, who had succeeded Father Fermín Lasuén as President of the California mission chain. The Mission site was chosen as a midway point between...
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x Mission San Antonio de Padua Mission San Antonio de Padua   Spanish missions in California Structure
Mission San Antonio de Padua was founded on July 14, 1771, the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra, and site of the first Christian marriage and first use of fired-tile roofing in Upper California. Father...
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x Mission San Rafael Arcángel mission san rafael.JPG   Spanish missions in California Structure
Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in 1817 as a medical asistencia ("sub-mission") of the Mission San Francisco de Asís as a hospital to treat sick Native Americans of the Bay Area, making it Alta California's first sanitarium. The weather was...
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x Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa   Spanish missions in California Location
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was founded 1772 on the Central Coast of California on a site located halfway between Santa Barbara and Monterey. It was named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse. The Mission church of San Luis...
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x Mission Santa Cruz Mission Santa Cruz   Spanish missions in California Structure
Skyler Rae Baker:Other missions bearing the name Santa Cruz include the Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá and the Mission San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz in Texas, along with four separate outposts located throughout the State of Florida. Mission Santa...
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x Mission La Purísima Concepción Mission La Purísima Concepción   Spanish missions in California Location
La Purisima Mission (with the original Spanish name being La Misión de La Purísima Concepción de la Santísima Virgen María) was founded on the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin on December 8, 1787. The present and second...
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x Mission San Juan Bautista Mission San Juan Bautista   Spanish missions in California Location
Mission San Juan Bautista was founded on June 24, 1797 in what is now the San Juan Bautista Historic District of San Juan Bautista, California. Barracks for the soldiers, a nunnery, the Jose Castro House, and other buildings were constructed around...
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x Mission San José Mission San José   Spanish missions in California Structure
Mission San José was founded on June 11, 1797 on a site located in the "Mission San Jose District" of Fremont, California (formerly an independent town, a spot that the natives called Oroysom or Orisom) in the "Valley of San José." The settlement...
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x Mission San Juan Capistrano Mission San Juan Capistrano   Spanish missions in California Structure
Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded on All Saints Day November 1, 1776 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and "warrior priest" who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San...
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x Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo   Spanish missions in California Location
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, also known as the Carmel Mission, is a Roman Catholic mission church in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. It is part of the National Registry of Historic Places and a U.S. National Historic Landmark. It was the...
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x Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad   Spanish missions in California Structure
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad was founded on October 9, 1791 to minister and take in the Indians of the Salinas Valley. It was the thirteenth of the Spanish missions founded in California by members of the Franciscan Order. The remains of...
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x Mission San Fernando Rey de España Mission San Fernando Rey de España   Spanish missions in California Location
Mission San Fernando Rey de España was founded on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary" (September 8), 1797. The settlement is located on the former Encino Rancho in the Mission Hills community of northern Los Angeles, near the site of the first gold...
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x Mission San Luis Rey de Francia     Spanish missions in California Location
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, also known as San Luis Rey Mission Church, was founded on June 13, 1798 in what is now the city of Oceanside, California. In 1816, Mission San Antonio de Pala was established twenty miles (32 km) inland as its...
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x Mission Santa Barbara Mission Santa Barbara   Spanish missions in California Location
Mission Santa Barbara, also known as Santa Barbara Mission, is a Spanish Franciscan mission near present day Santa Barbara, California. It was founded December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, to evangelize the local Chumash (Canaliño) tribe...
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x Mission San Gabriel Arcángel Mission San Gabriel Arcángel   Spanish missions in California Location
The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. Site of the first hospital in Alta California, the settlement was founded by Spaniards of the Franciscan order on "The...
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x Mission San Buenaventura     Spanish missions in California Structure
Mission San Buenaventura was founded on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1782 in Las Californias, part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain. Named for a Franciscan theologian, Saint Bonaventure, it was the last of the missions founded by Father Serra....
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x Mission San Francisco Solano Mission San Francisco Solano   Spanish missions in California Structure
Mission San Francisco Solano was founded on July 4, 1823 and named for a missionary to the Indians of Peru born in Montilla, Spain, known as the "Wonder Worker of the New World." Originally planned as an asistencia ("sub-mission") to Mission San...
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x Mission San Diego de Alcalá Mission San Diego de Alcalá   Spanish missions in California Location
Mission San Diego de Alcalá, in San Diego, California, was the first Franciscan mission in the Alta California region of New Spain. It was founded in 1769 by Spanish friar Junípero Serra in an area long inhabited by the Kumeyaay Indians. The mission...
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