Mission San Luis de Apalachee Church Font - Tallahassee, Florida, USA
N 30° 27.017 W 084° 19.229
16R E 757304 N 3371732
The original baptism font is located in the reconstructed church at the historic Mission San Luis de Apalachee in Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
Waymark Code: WM8ZHN
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 06/05/2010
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The original church building was destroyed when the mission was abandoned in 1704. However, the original limestone baptistry base still remains and is located inside the reconstructed church building.
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"Mission San Luis de Apalachee (also known as San Luis de Talimali) was a Spanish Franciscan mission built in 1633 in the Florida Panhandle, two miles west of the present-day Florida Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Florida. It was located in the descendent settlement of Anhaica (also as Anhayca Apalache or Inihayca) capital of Apalachee Province. The mission was part of Spain's effort to colonize the region, and convert the Timucuan and Apalachee Indians to Christianity. The mission lasted until 1704, when it was evacuated and destroyed to prevent its use by an approaching militia of Creek Indians and South Carolinians."
"The site where the mission stood was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966."
"Beginning in 1996, Renker Eich Parks Architects, of St. Petersburg, Florida, with Herchel Sheperd, FAIA, undertook designing the reconstruction of many of the buildings in the mission using archeological and historical evidence to conjecture the architecture of the buildings to how they would originally have been built. The buildings that have since been reconstructed include the Church, the Convento, the Council House, the Chief's House, the Fort and Blockhouse, and a typical Spanish House as well as many minor features around the site."