Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa - Soledad, CA
Posted by: Metro2
N 36° 24.280 W 121° 21.358
10S E 647418 N 4030088
A replica of one Mission inside another Mission.
Waymark Code: WMQF7Y
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/20/2016
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The Museum at the Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad has a glass-enclosed cabinet with several replicas of other Missions. This one is a replica of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. The sign does not indicate who made the replica.
Wikipedia's article about the original (
visit link) informs us:
"Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is a Spanish mission founded in 1772 by Father Junípero Serra in the present-day city of San Luis Obispo, California. Named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse, the mission is the namesake of the city of San Luis Obispo and San Luis Obispo County.
The Mission church of San Luis Obispo is unusual in its design in that its combination of belfry and vestibule is found nowhere else among the California missions. The main nave is short and narrow (as is the case with other mission churches), but at San Luis Obispo there is a secondary nave of almost equal size situated to the right of the altar, making this the only "L"-shaped mission church among all of the California missions. The mission church today is a parish church of the Diocese of Monterey."