Mission Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara, CA
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N 34° 26.293 W 119° 42.782
11S E 250717 N 3814085
Named the most beautiful California mission.
Waymark Code: WMR1G0
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/27/2016
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Taken from Wikipedia, "Mission Santa Barbara, also known as Santa Barbara Mission, is a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order near present-day Santa Barbara, California. It was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén on December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, as the tenth mission for the religious conversion of the indigenous local Chumash—Barbareño tribe of Native American people. The mission is the namesake of the city of Santa Barbara as well as Santa Barbara County.
The Mission grounds occupy a rise between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Ynez Mountains, and were consecrated by Father Fermín Lasuén, who had taken over the presidency of the California mission chain upon the death of Father Presidente Junípero Serra. Mission Santa Barbara is the only mission to remain under the leadership of the Franciscan Friars since its founding, and today is a parish church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles."
Expert from the book, "Santa Barbara Mission (open 8-5 weekdays, 11-5 Sun.), Los Olives St. between Garden and Laguna Sts., called Queen of the Missions in the dates when it was rich and powerful, is the best preserved and architecturally one of the finest missions. A blending of old Spanish and Morrish architecture, it was constructed in 1815 by the padres, using Canalion Indian labor, to replace the building destroyed in the 1812 earthquake. The original mission chapel was made of boughs in 1786. Damage to mission buildings by the 1925 earthquake was promptly retired."
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