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What Mission is this?
I have been scanning pictures from my mothers photo albums and ran across some from a trip we did to Baja. In that collection was this picture. I
think I know where it was taken but would like some confirmation. It was taken in March 1974 as listed in the album. I believe my father took the
picture while my wife and I were out diving.
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I have never seen a mission in Baja that looked like that. But I have not been to all of them.
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Well it definitely is a church, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was a mission. Nice looking structure though, and I am curious about the
location.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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DK knows.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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Not one of the Baja missions or new church on a mission site in Baja.
In addition to the 25 Spanish missions, there are two more 'Mexican' missions: El Descanso and Guadalupe (del Norte) founded by Dominican priest after
Mexico's independence from Spain. They are both located near Mission San Miguel on the map above, which some historians consider the two as simply new
locations for that mission.
[Edited on 7-12-2017 by David K]
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wiltonh
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It is definitely in Baja. It was built in 1730 if that helps. It has been refurbished and has bi-lingual masses at 12 noon each Sunday.
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wiltonh
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I think one of the arrows on your map points at this building.
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The only mission I could find built in 1730 is in San Jose del Cabo.
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Quote: Originally posted by wiltonh  | | It is definitely in Baja. It was built in 1730 if that helps. It has been refurbished and has bi-lingual masses at 12 noon each Sunday.
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I want to help you find out!
In 1730, one mission was founded, San José del Cabo, the 12th California mission.
Mission churches in Baja that look like your photo were not constructed before 1740. They were made of sticks, palm leaves, then adobe.
Churches made of adobe or stone were constructed after the founding. In the case of the stone missions, often many years after.
For example, San Javier was founded in 1699, but then the mission was moved in 1710. It wasn't until 1744 that construction began on the church we see
today and lasted to 1758.
Loreto (1697) began construction of the stone church in 1740.
Comondú (1708) was moved in 1736, 22 miles south. The stone church there was started in 1754.
Stone mission at Mulegé was completed in 1766.
San Luis Gonzaga (founded 1737) stone church was built from March 1753 to December 1758.
San Ignacio, founded in 1728 by the Jesuits, has a grand church but was not completed until 1786 by the Dominicans.
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Cool, but I have photos at every site posted here and in my book (Do you have my book yet?) and I don't remember seeing a mission church like your
photo. ??
Let's keep searching!
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I am quite sure that the church listed above is the one described in this link. There are several pictures where it is painted differently and it
appears that a blue gate or wall has been added on the right side.
So DK is this not considered a mission? If so what is it?
http://www.loscabosguide.com/parroquia-de-san-lucas/
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Hi again,
That web info is flawed... if you scroll down a bit after it claims to be a 1730 church, you can read the editor's correction. They were trying to
flash it up, connecting it to the mission of San José del Cabo (1730), but there in no connection. A mission was a specific enterprise, sanctioned by
the Spanish government and operated by one of the three Catholic Orders who were in Baja California (called only 'California' before 1769).
San Lucas was only a safe bay, but the fresh water for growing crops (and Indian population) was at San José del Cabo, so that is where the mission
was founded.
I only wish to provide accurate details of what we know about what went on in Old California history. I use the written words of the missionaries
whenever possible to find the names, dates, and locations of the missions. In my 2016 book, Baja California Land of Missions, I have provided details
from these sources and organized it in such a fashion that the confusion of what was a mission and when and where it was, so often published in error
(innocently, in most cases), is made much easier to understand.
I have shared all of that data freely in Nomad posts the past 3 years while I was writing the book and after it was published. It is just handy to
have it all together in book form, and it fits in the glovebox!
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More, just so I answer your question fully...
It is a parish church, not a mission church. It is also new, relatively speaking. It was not in San Lucas in 1966, which was just a collection of
fishing shacks and homes + the fish cannery and one hotel, The Hacienda.
Here are pages from my 2016 book on Mission San José del Cabo, and shows how I treat most of the 27 missions in Baja... Enjoy!
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Here is the modern church (at least back to 1950s) on the final mission site at San José del Cabo:
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It looks like the web lied again. What an astounding thought.
I had never seen that building before and used Google Image search to look up a match. It took an hour our two but I did find the picture. One of
the reasons it took so long was I had mission in the description and you needed a lying web page for that to match.
Thanks for clearing things up DK.
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The pleasure was all mine, amigo! Thanks for putting me to work on it!
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A question asked, and answered.
I love a happy ending!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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...give it time........ 
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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"Don't stir it!", your wise words!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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If you look at the photo on the link http://www.loscabosguide.com/parroquia-de-san-lucas/
that reads "Iglesia San Lucas (Cabo) you will see the cap on the hill to the left also appears in the 1974 photo. Also, the front planter area looks
the same. Amazing the changes since 1974, but I think it is the same church.
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