San Antonio Missions National Historic Park

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On 13 Sep 2003, I made a trip to San Antonio, Texas. After spending the morning in the church and early part of the afternoon in fellowship lunch with new friends from ETH church, I went on a historic discovery of missions of San Antonio as planned. San Antonio Missions The mission of San Antonio were far more than just churches. They were really communities. Each mission was a fortified village, with its own church, farm and ranch.

Mission Concepcion

Here, the Franciscans gather the native people, converted them to Catholicism, taught them to live as Spaniards, and helped maintain Spanish contol of the Texas frontier. The Francicians established six missions along the San Antonio River in the early 1700s. Five of them flourished and, with the villa de San Fernando became the foundation of the city of San Antonio. Today, the missions are elegant reminders of the contribution of Indian and Hispanic people to the history of United States.

Mission San Jose

Below is the drawing of a typical mission community and achitectural build up based on Mission Concepcion.

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