Mission San Miguel Arcángel
About Mission San Miguel Arcángel
Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, California. It was established on July 25, 1797, by the Franciscan order, on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize.
The mission remains in use as a parish church of the Diocese of Monterey. After being closed to the public for six years due to the 2003 San Simeon earthquake, the church reopened on September 29, 2009. Inside the church are murals designed by Esteban Munras.
The mission was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and was named to a National Historic Landmark in 2006. Of California's missions, it is one that retains more than most of its layout and buildings, including a portion of its neophyte village.
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01San Luis Obispo CountyJsweida · CC BY-SA 3.0
02Interior patio fountain of Mission San Miguel ArcángelDpalma01 · CC BY-SA 4.0
03Fountain at Mission San MiguelTheother6 · CC BY-SA 3.0
04FEMA - - Photograph by Dane Golden taken onDane Golden / FEMA News Photo · Public domain
05Campanille at Mission San MiguelJPRoy2101 · CC BY-SA 3.0
06Mission San Miguel Arcangel, CA USAMARELBU · CC BY 3.0
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Nearby museums
Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 7.6 miles of Mission San Miguel Arcángel; the closest, Camp Roberts Historical Museum, is about 5.6 miles away.
