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Kristen
January 28, 2021
Mission San Juan Capistrano is a World Heritage site
Michelle
December 1, 2017
One of the 5 World Heritage Missions, able to bike along the river to all of the missions.
Angie
August 9, 2018
Historic mission linked by the San Antonio River to the other 4 missions in the city. City bus tours available.
Jordan
January 25, 2018
One of the Missions, a UNESCO World Heritage site
Dan
August 1, 2016
Mission San Juan Capistrano is one of three missions that were moved from East Texas in 1731. First established in 1716 as Mission San José de los Nazonis in present day Nacogdoches County, the mission attempted to convert the Nasoni Indians to Christianity and protected the boundaries of New Spain from French incursion. However, the mission failed to thrive and was relocated to a more sustainable position in the San Antonio River Valley. According to Father Ortiz in 1745, the San Antonio River Valley was selected due to the high quality of the arable lands. Rededicated as Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1731, the mission began attracting and recruiting local indigenous people. By 1745 there were 41 families consisting of 163 people living at Mission San Juan and 515 individuals had been baptized. The acequia (irrigation system) was complete and functioning with successful crop yields. The church and the indigenous quarters were still jacal structures, but a two-room stone convento, storeroom, and granary had been completed. The compound continued to expand to include additional workrooms for weaving, a walled enclosure with indigenous quarters along that wall (similar to Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo), and other structures. In the 1770s, the compound was expanded to its modern size with additional indigenous quarters, soldiers quarters and perimeter wall. Some scholars suggest that this expansion was due to a changing role of the southern missions to accommodate not only the indigenous community but the expanding group of Spanish citizens from a variety of ethnic backgrounds that were coming into the area from other parts of New Spain and beyond. The current church which has undergone a long stabilization project, is the fourth church of the mission and was completed ca. 1790. Construction for a larger more elaborate church began on the east side of the compound in ca. 1772 and went through three master mason/architects before the project was ultimately abandoned. The third architect, Antonio Salazar, finally gave up on the building due to the difficulties of obtaining the proper skilled labor for the vaulted roof. The “unfinished church” still stands in ruins today. While never completed, it was consecrated as a cemetery in 1779 when the second architect, Joseph Padron, died. He had requested to be buried in the church in his will. The current church was built out of the rubble of perhaps as many as three earlier structures (including a granary) in this location. Recent stabilization efforts have revealed deep foundations that are tied to the foundations of earlier structures in that location. Mission San Juan Capistrano is perhaps the most intensively investigated of all of the mission sites with a series of excavations by Mardith Schuetz Miller from 1967-1972 and additional extensive excavations by UTSA-CAR in conjunction with the recent stabilization project. These investigations have reinforced the inventories and other documents that suggest the continual building and re-building nature of these mission sites which would have required a substantial labor pool. Mission San Juan was both an agricultural and weaving center during Spanish Colonial times. Crops such as corn, beans, sugar cane, and watermelon were grown very successfully. In 2012, water was restored to the historic San Juan Acequia and in 2013 the first crop will be sown on the original labores or farm fields. Mission San Juan was partially secularized in 1794 and completely secularized after Mexican Independence in 1824. People continued to live amongst the ruins of the mission for many years, including the post-Colonial structure that was built along the ruins of the east wall ca. 1850 and continued to be occupied in to the 1950s. Mission San Juan Capistrano has an active parish and a large number of mission descendants that remain involved in the community.
Mission San Juan Capistrano is one of three missions that were moved from East Texas in 1731. First established in 1716 as Mission San José de los Nazonis in present day Nacogdoches County, the mission attempted to convert the Nasoni Indians to Christianity and protected the boundaries of New Spain…
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San Antonio, TX
Stinson Airport Vicinity