California Mission Photos |
Built by the Spanish to support settlement & Christianize Indians, missions stretched from San Diego to San Francisco & beyond. They were spaced about a day's horse ride apart along the El Camino Real (King's Highway). Missions are listed South to North with year founded. California towns took their names from the missions, so town names are given only if different from the first two or three words of a mission name. Stained glass images of missions are from Mission Dolores in San Francisco. |
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| See also: Stained glass windows of California Missions, Spanish Mission del Bac in Tucson, AZ, Spanish Mission in Texas |
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| San Diego de Alcala (1769) |
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| San Luis Rey de Francia (1798) (Oceanside) |
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| San Juan Capistrano (1776) |
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| San Gabriel Archangel (1771) |
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| San Fernando Rey de España (1797) |
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| San Buenaventura (1782) (Ventura) |
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| Santa Barbara (1786) |
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| Santa Ines (1804) (Solvang) |
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| La Purisima Concepcion de Maria Santisima (1787) (Lompoc) |
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| San Luis Obispo de Tolosa (1772) |
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| San Miguel Archangel (1797) (Paso Robles) |
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| San Antonio de Padua (1771) (Jolon) |
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| Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1791) (ruins near Soledad) |
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| San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (1770) (Carmel) |
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| San Juan Bautista (1797) |
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| Santa Cruz (1791) (rebuilt as State Park) |
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| Santa Clara de Asis (1777) |
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| San Jose de Guadalupe (1797) |
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| San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores) (1776) |
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| San Rafael Arcangel (1817) |
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| San Francisco de Solano (1823) (Sonoma) |
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All photos on this page are originals by & copyrighted by Jim Steinhart. All rights reserved. Permission required to use. |