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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is a National Historical Park and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site preserving four of the five Spanish frontier missions in San Antonio, Texas, US. These outposts were established by Catholic religious orders to spread Christianity among the local natives. These missions formed part of a ...
Location in San Antonio Coordinates Property Area Buffer Zone 1466-001 Mission Espada: San Antonio Missions National Historical Park: 94.7 ha (234 acres) 2.068 ha (5.11 acres) 1466-002 Mission San Juan Capistrano: San Antonio Missions National Historical Park
The grounds of Mission San Juan Capistrano has been maintained by the National Park Service as a part of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park since the 1980s, and the Archdiocese of San Antonio maintains the church building, parish parking lot, rectory (priest's quarters), and the parish hall (Slattery Hall). The hall is located ...
Other sites like San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in Texas, William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Ohio, and Fort Stanwix National Monument in New York lie just outside the ...
The oldest parts of San Fernando Cathedral go back 300 years to the founding of the city, when it served the church for the San Antonio colonists, as opposed to the five surviving missions, which ...
Mission Tejas State Park encompasses the original site of the mission. The mission relocated to its current location in the San Antonio River area (coordinates 29.3177°, -98.4498°) in March 1731 and was renamed San Francisco de la Espada. A friary was built in 1745, and the church was completed in 1756.
San Antonio Missions World Heritage Site — in San Antonio, Texas. Pages in category "San Antonio Missions (World Heritage Site)" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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