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Started in 1901 and completed in 1902, St. Thomas Aquinas Church is the oldest church in Palo Alto, California and is a registered historic landmark. Its distinctive Carpenter Gothic Victorian style makes it a signature building for the downtown area. The church is located just three blocks south of University Avenue.
Mission Santa Clara de Asís, founded in 1777. This is a list of current and former Roman Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose in California.The diocese comprises Santa Clara County, California and includes approximately 53 churches divided for administrative purposes into six deaneries.
St. Athanasius parish was established June 19, 1959, at the direction of His Excellency John 1. Mitty, D.D., Archbishop of San Francisco to serve Catholics of Mountain View and Palo Alto. The founding pastor, Father Leonard W. Bose, was born January 16, 1917, to William A. Bose and Babete C. Schimmel- Bose, of San Francisco.
San Jose de Guadalupe Church was dedicated in San Jose in 1803. It was the first church built for Spanish settlers in California, as opposed to mission churches established for evangelizing Native Americans. [5] In 1840, the Vatican moved California, now part of the Republic of Mexico, into the Diocese of Alta and Baja California.
The 35-acre property belongs to the Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD), and is leased to the City of Palo Alto. [3] The larger remainder of this site, (approx. 39,000 square feet) was leased since 2002 to the Foothill-De Anza College District for the Middlefield Campus of Foothill College, a local community college. [3]
Stanford Memorial Church is located at the center of Stanford University, [4] and is "the principle building that is seen as the visitor approaches the University along Palm Drive from Palo Alto". [8] It sits the middle of the long southern range of the school's Main Quad. [9]
The church's pipe organ, originally built in 1906 for St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco by Murray M. Harris was saved from fire resulting from the 1906 earthquake, and was acquired by St. Joseph Parish and re-installed in the new church in 1928. The instrument went through many modifications from 1965 to 2005, and now has a new console (1981 ...
St. Monica Catholic Church (Santa Monica, California) St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church (Burbank, California) St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel (Ojai, California) St. Thomas Aquinas Church (Palo Alto, California) Sawyers Bar Catholic Church; St. Charles Borromeo (Visalia) St. Teresa of Avila Church (Bodega, California)