bajaguy - 6-27-2014 at 06:29 AM
From ensenada.net (Google Translate):
"The Rescue Mission Santa Gertrudis Magna" INAH Conference this Friday
Article posted June 26, 2014
by Elizabeth Vargas
One of the two missional properties that are still in operation in the state, is Santa Gertrudis La Magna. As of June conference, on Friday 27 will be
announced to the public the first intensive conservation work this Jesuit site founded in July 15, 1752.
The title of this conference is "The Rescue Mission Santa Gertrudis La Magna: 1986-1996", and will be presented by the architect Diana Guerrero
Gonzalez, Perito section Historical Monuments of Baja California INAH Center.
This mission site is located at the junction with the road to El Arco, 25 km south of Guerrero transpeninsular Black by road, 42 miles east and 36 to
the northwest, in the Ejido Independencia municipality of Ensenada.
The site comprises the permanent mission church and a steeple, all built from a nearby quarry, the canal is still used, and stone fences. And three
bells, a painting, a stack of baptism, confession and two reliquaries, all eighteenth century.
Due to the isolation of many mission suffered no epidemics during its early years, it is estimated that the Indian population grew to 1735 by the year
1762. It was abandoned in 1822 due to the reduction of its indigenous population.
During the development of the conference activities in this mission site under the architectural salvage the building, from 1988 to 1996, with a
target active agent in such activities, the community exhibited chronologically.
Will be discussed in detail about the work of structural rescue, museology, demarcation of the land; workers involved, the difficulties encountered,
among some other issues.
The date is Friday 27 from 19:30 pm in the Regional Historical Museum, located at Av Gastelum between streets Adolfo Lopez Mateos and Tte. Virgilio
Uribe, downtown (Ensenada). Free admission.
David K - 6-27-2014 at 08:20 AM
The small mission church was extensively renovated in 1996-7 with a modern interior that lost the historic connection, in my opinion.
Maybe this new work is to return it to they way it looked before 1997?
A little history: http://vivabaja.com/bajamissions/page7.html
The bell tower at Santa Gertrudis is the photo on our book's Facebook page: http://facebook.com/oldmissions