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The town of San Juan Bautista, which grew up around the mission, expanded rapidly during the California Gold Rush and continues to be a thriving community today. The mission is situated adjacent to the San Andreas Fault , and has suffered damage from numerous earthquakes , such as those of 1800 and 1906.
A plan view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano complex (including the footprint of the "Great Stone Church") prepared by architectural historian Rexford Newcomb in 1916. [2] The first priority when beginning a settlement was the location and construction of the church (iglesia).
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Mission San Juan Bautista in 1934. Mission San Juan Bautista was founded in 1797, as the 15th Spanish mission in what is now California. It was well sited for its intended purpose, the conversion of area Native Americans to Roman Catholicism, and was highly successful. The present mission church, still an active Catholic parish, was built in ...
San Juan Bautista (Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist") is a city in San Benito County, in the U.S. state of California. The population was 2,089 as of the 2020 census . [ 6 ] San Juan Bautista was founded in 1797 by the Spanish under Fermín de Lasuén , with the establishment of Mission San Juan Bautista .
Mission San Juan Bautista, called San Juan by locals of the mission days, was the fifteenth Spanish missions in California. Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821 and passed the Mexican secularization act of 1833. The Mexican secularization act took most of the mission's lands and buildings way and gave them to connected people.
Drawing of the Mission San Juan Bautista, by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1902 Photograph of a drawing of the Mission San Juan Bautista, by Henry Chapman Ford, ca.1902. The single-story mission is flat and lengthy. A cross stands at the peak of the gable of the main building. To the left is a lengthy arcade with semi-circular arches.
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