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BajaBlanca
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San Borja looks amazing !!! time to go there methinks. thanx for putting up the photo. I had no idea it was so intact.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
San Borja looks amazing !!! time to go there methinks. thanx for putting up the photo. I had no idea it was so intact. |
Oh it is a huge thing out there in the desert... Really amazing to think all the solid blocks of stone were quarried some distance away and brought to
the mission site to build that massive church... construction of the stone church was done by the Dominicans after 1773 and ended in 1801, without a
bell tower.
The adobe ruins are behind the stone church and have a awning to protect some of them... added after this photo was taken by Jack Swords... It is
likely the Franciscans built most of the adobe church during their short time at San Borja (1768-1773).
The mission was founded by the Jesuits in 1762, as the next to the last mission of theirs, before being expelled from the New World.
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toneart
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David,
Your photos are great! Do you have any idea how that stairwell was constructed? I can see the blocks, but the whole thing, including the center pole
and the steps look like they were carved out of stone. 
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by toneart
David,
Your photos are great! Do you have any idea how that stairwell was constructed? I can see the blocks, but the whole thing, including the center pole
and the steps look like they were carved out of stone.
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They were! Here's all the stairway photos I took Tony, bottom to top and back:
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BajaDanD
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Each stone is shaped like a keyhole and stacked on top of the other at slightly a diffent degree eventually you have a staircase
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David K
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No doubt a secret of the Free Masons? 
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Debra
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Those stairs are very scary to walk down. Just looking at the pics. reminds me of having to have help down them. Thanks again David 
Mean people suck!
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