Mission San José (California)
Mission San José as it appeared in April of 2011.
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Location of Mission San José in California#USA
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| Location | 43300 Mission Blvd. Fremont, California 94539 |
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| Coordinates | 37°31′58″N 121°55′10″W / 37.53278°N 121.91944°WCoordinates: 37°31′58″N 121°55′10″W / 37.53278°N 121.91944°W |
| Name as founded | La Misión del Gloriosísimo Patriarca Señor San José |
| English translation | The Mission of the Glorious Patriarch Lord Saint Joseph |
| Patron | Saint Joseph |
| Founding date | June 11, 1797 |
| Founding priest(s) | Father Fermín Lasuén |
| Founding Order | Fourteenth |
| Headquarters of the Alta California Mission System | 1824–1827; 1830–1833 |
| Military district | Fourth |
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Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) |
Bay Miwok, Coast Miwok, Lake Miwok, Patwin, Tamyen, Yokuts Costeño |
| Native place name(s) | Oroysom |
| Baptisms | 6,673 |
| Marriages | 1,990 |
| Burials | 4,800 |
| Secularized | 1834 |
| Returned to the Church | 1858 |
| Governing body | Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland |
| Current use | Chapel / Museum |
| Designated | 1971 |
| Reference no. | 71000131 |
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| http://www.missionsanjose.org/ | |
Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California. It was founded on June 11, 1797, by the Franciscan order and was the fourteenth Spanish mission established in California. The mission is the namesake of the Mission San José district of Fremont, which was an independent town subsumed into the city when it was incorporated in 1957.
The Mission entered a long period of gradual decline after Mexican secularization act of 1833. Though numerous restoration efforts in the intervening periods have reconstructed many of the original structures. The old mission church remains in use as a chapel of Saint Joseph Catholic Church, a parish of the Diocese of Oakland. The museum also features a visitor center, museum, and slide show telling the history of the mission.
Mission San José was originally going to be built by Juan Crespí in what is now the San Ramon Valley. However, the Native Americans living in that area were very hostile towards the Spanish. So the Spanish decided to move the Mission further south to what is now present-day Fremont, California.
Work on the site of Mission San Jose commenced in May 1797 by Native American people from Mission Santa Clara, 13 miles to the south, under direction of Franciscan missionaries and secular Hispanic overseers. The location, on slopes overlooking the Fremont plain on the east side of San Francisco Bay, had been inhabited for countless generations by Indians who spoke the San Francisco Bay Ohlone language. The Ohlone lived a hunting and wild-plant harvesting lifestyle. Their food included seeds, roots, berries, the flour from acorns, small game, deer, fish, and shellfish. In 1797 most of the Indians, from the immediate vicinity of the mission site had actually already been baptized at Mission Santa Clara, 13 miles to the south, during the 1780s and early 1790s. It was these people who returned home to form the founding population of the new community (Milliken 2008).
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