Mission San Xavier del Bac
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Eliza
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In 1692 Father Eusebio Kino established a Catholic mission 16 kilometers south of what is now Downtown Tucson, in an area of natural water sources. The mission was in the center of centuries old settlement of the Tohono O'odham Indians, then known as Papago, on the banks of Santa Cruz River. The original mission was vulnerable to Apache attacks and was eventually destroyed around 1770.
Since Jesuits had been expelled by the Kingdom of Spain, the mission passed in the hands of Franciscans, which built the present day church in 1783, a little distance away from the original site (about 3km). Known as the "White Dove of the Desert", the church has a simple, white design vaguely Moorish inspired, and an heavily decorated interior, with paintings and frescoes showing a mixture of New Spain and Native American motifs.
Category: Monument and Historic Building
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