U. S. Mission Trail / The Mission Trail Today - The Spanish Missions in California

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#11, La Purisima Concepción

Founded December 8, 1787
by Father Fermin Lasuen.
Lompoc.

Personal Observations

La Purisima is probably my favorite mission. It is beautifully restored and sits on a large site. There are large animal enclosures and fields in a small valley. The chapel is no longer used, but many of the work areas are restored.

Mission Art & Photo-Art

History

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Address and Directions

2295 Purisima Road
Lompoc, CA 93436

From Highway 101, exit at State Highway 246 west at Buellton. (My recommendation is stop at Pea Soup Andersen's in Buellton for something to eat.) (Mission Santa Ines is only about five miles east of Buellton on the same Highway 246.) After about 14 miles west of Buellton, turn right onto Purisima Road for about a mile. The mission is on the right.

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Photography Gallery

Church exterior.

Church interior. Photo date: 11-2-02.

Panorama of this large mission. Photo date: 11-2-02.

From parking lot. Photo date: 4-4-92.

Alter. Photo date: 11-2-02.

Alter. Photo date: 4-4-92.

Interior. Photo date: 11-2-02.

Grounds. Photo date: 4-4-92.

Bell tower and lether drying. Photo date: 11-2-02.

Entrance to Church. Photo date: 11-2-02.

Bell Tower. Photo date: 6-23-90.

Bell Tower. Photo date: 4-4-92.

Bell tower. Photo date: 11-2-02.

Work room interior. 11-2-02.

Grinding wheel. 11-2-02.

Entrance to work yard. Photo date: 11-2-02.

Covered ruins of a work area. Photo date: 11-2-02.

Across a large field. 11-2-02.

Bird nest under an eave.4-4-92.

Sheep. Photo date: 4-4-92.

This is the only mission that I have been to that has farm animals. 4-4-92.

This is the only mission that I have been to that has farm animals. 11-2-02.

This mission is unusual in that after the original 1787 mission was destroyed by an earthquakein 1812, a new mission was built on a new site in 1813. Originally built in what is now the City of Lompoc, the Mission is now across the river and about four miles east of town. Photo date: 4-4-92.

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