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Mission San Xavier del Bac was established in 1692 by Eusebio Francisco Kino, who founded a chain of Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert. [6] A Jesuit of Italian descent, Kino often visited and preached in the area, then the Pimería Alta colonial territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain . [ 1 ]
The San Xavier Indian Reservation (O’odham: Wa:k) is an Indian reservation of the Tohono O’odham Nation located near Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert. The San Xavier Reservation lies in the southwestern part of the Tucson metropolitan area and consists of 111.543 sq mi (288.90 km 2 ) of land area, about 2.5 percent of the Tohono O ...
Mission San Cayetano del Tumacácori: Guevavi: 1691 () Jesuits: The mission abandoned during the 1751 O'odham Uprising and rebuilt as Mission San José de Tumacácori to the west of the Santa Cruz River. Mission San José de Tumacácori: Guevavi: 31.56861, -111.0509: 1757 () Jesuits: Located west of the site of Mission San Cayetano del ...
Mission San Xavier del Bac: 32.10723, -111.00797: 1692 () Jesuits: 1692–1770, 1783–1837, 1859–present. The extant mission church was completed in 1797. [4] [5] Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas: 31.45252, -110.95945: 1755 () Jesuits: It was founded as a visita of Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi and later became a mission. Abandoned ...
San Xavier Mission Complex Archeological District: July 27, 1973 : Address restricted [5] Rockdale: See also. National Register of Historic Places portal;
Mission San Xavier del Bac: San Xavier Indian Reservation near Tucson, Arizona: 1783-1797 Church Rebuilt in 1783 near site of an earlier razed church built in 1692 [5] Likely the oldest Spanish colonial/European built structure in Arizona. Cordova House: Tucson, Arizona: ca. 1848 Residence Oldest house in Tucson; now part of Tucson Museum of ...
The visita would become the San Agustin Mission del Tucsón. It eventually had a church, a two-story residence for priests, a granary, tanning vats, a soap factory, a blacksmith shop and smelter, as well as cemetery areas - all surrounded by a compound wall. [8] This mission was later called the Mission San Cosme y Damián. (See also Spanish ...
San Xavier may refer to: Francis Xavier (1506–1552), Roman Catholic missionary; San Javier, Ñuflo de Chávez, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia; San Xavier, Arizona, a town; San Xavier Indian Reservation, near Tucson, Arizona, United States Mission San Xavier del Bac, a historic Spanish Catholic mission on San Xavier Indian Reservation