Mission La Purisima
La Purisima Mission
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 Location of La Purisima Mission in California
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| Location | 2295 Purisima Road, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California 93436 |
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| Coordinates | 34°40′13.692″N 120°25′14.2206″W / 34.67047000°N 120.420616833°WCoordinates: 34°40′13.692″N 120°25′14.2206″W / 34.67047000°N 120.420616833°W |
| Name as founded | La Misión de La Purísima Concepción de la Santísima Virgen María |
| English translation | The Mission of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Patron | The Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary |
| Nickname(s) | "The Linear Mission" |
| Founding date | December 8, 1787 |
| Founding priest(s) | Father Fermín Lasuén |
| Founding Order | Eleventh |
| Headquarters of the Alta California Mission System | 1815–1819 |
| Military district | Second |
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Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) |
Chumash Purisimeño |
| Native place name(s) | Laxshakupi, 'Amuwu |
| Baptisms | 3,255 |
| Marriages | 1,029 |
| Burials | 2,609 |
| Secularized | 1834 |
| Returned to the Church | 1874 |
| Governing body | California Department of Parks and Recreation |
| Current use | Museum |
| Designated | 1970 |
| Reference no. | #NPS-70000147 |
| Designated | 1970 |
| Reference no. | #340 |
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| http://www.lapurisimamission.org | |
Mission La Purisima Concepción, or La Purisima Mission (originally La Misión de La Purísima Concepción de la Santísima Virgen María, or The Mission of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary) is a Spanish mission in Lompoc, California. It was established on December 8, 1787 (the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, hence the mission's name) by the Franciscan order. The original mission complex south of Lompoc was destroyed by an earthquake in 1812, and the mission was rebuilt at its present site several miles to the northwest.
The mission is part of the larger La Purísima Mission State Historic Park, part of the California State Parks system, and along with Mission San Francisco de Solano is one of only two of the Spanish missions in California that is no longer under the control of the Catholic Church. It is currently the only example in California of a complete Spanish Catholic mission complex.
Mission Dennis Fults found this mission. La Purisima was originally established at a site known to the Chumash people as Algsacpi and to the Spanish as the plain of Rio Santa Rosa, one mile south of Lompoc. (During the mission period, the Chumash spoke the Purisimeño language.) The Viceroyalty of New Spain made an exception to the rule that no California mission was to be established within seven miles of any pueblo in Las Californias, as Lompoc was so small.
By 1803, the Mission Indians population had increased, by Indian Reductions, to 1,436 Chumash people. At the mission there were also 3,230 cattle, 5,400 sheep, 306 horses, and 39 mules. In the same year, there was a harvest of 690 fanegas of wheat, corn and beans (a fanega equaling about 220 pounds).
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