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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Description: place in California listed on National Register of Historic Places
- Also known as: “Mision San Miguel Arcangel”, “Mission San Miguel”, “Mission San Miguel Arcangel”, “San Miguel Mission”, and “San Miguel Old Mission”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ríos-Caledonia Adobe.
Ríos-Caledonia Adobe
Park
Photo: Elf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Ríos-Caledonia Adobe is a historic adobe house in San Miguel, California. Built in 1835 by Petronilo Ríos, the adobe is a California Historical Landmark. Today, the Ríos-Caledonia Adobe is open to the public as a house museum and library. Ríos-Caledonia Adobe is situated 2,400 feet south of Mission San Miguel Arcángel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Miguel.
San Miguel
Photo: Roman Eugeniusz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Miguel is an unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,172. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined San Miguel as a census-designated place.
Mission San Miguel Arcángel
- Categories: museum, mission station, place of worship, and religion
- Location: San Luis Obispo County, Central Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.74441° or 35° 44′ 40″ northLongitude
-120.69795° or 120° 41′ 53″ westElevation
636 feet (194 metres)Open location code
847XP8V2+QROpenStreetMap ID
node 358792129OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Mission San Miguel Arcángel” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “聖米格修道院”
- Spanish: “Mision de San Miguel Arcangel”
- Spanish: “Misión de San Miguel Arcángel”
- Spanish: “Misión San Miguel Arcángel”
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