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Mission Santa Clara. / 37.3493; -121.9415. Mission Santa Clara de Asís (Spanish: Misión Santa Clara de Asís) is a Spanish mission in the city of Santa Clara, California. The mission, which was the eighth in California, was founded on January 12, 1777, by the Franciscans. Named for Saint Clare of Assisi, who founded the order of the Poor ...
Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California, United States. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. [5] The university's campus surrounds the historic Mission Santa Clara de Asís which traces its founding to 1777.
The lack of good-sized timber forced the men to design mission buildings that were long and narrow. For example, the widest inside dimensions of any of the mission buildings (at San Carlos, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz) is 29 feet (8.8 m): the narrowest, at Mission Soledad, spans 16.2 feet (4.9 m).
Serves as a parish church within Santa Clara University. Mission Santa Cruz: 1791 Santa Cruz: Nonextant. A reconstruction of the original mission was completed in the 1930s, which serves as a parish church and museum. Mission San Juan Bautista: 1797 San Juan Bautista
Mission College (Mission or MC) is a public community college in Santa Clara, California. It is part of the West Valley–Mission Community College District. The land the college is on was bought between 1966 and 1967. [2] Mission College opened for its first year in 1975. In 1979 it had grown to "3,500 students, 8 administrators, and 73 ...
Mission Santa Cruz: 2,466 baptisms total 644 people in 1798 [34] 2,034 deaths total 250 people remaining in 1834 [34] 17 Mission Santa Clara de Asís: 7,711 baptisms (3,177 children) 927 people in 1790, 1,464 in 1827 [35] 150 people remaining in 1834 [35] Very sharp decline in the native population from 1827 to 1834.
Between November 1794 and May 1795, a large wave of Bay Area Native Americans were baptized and moved into Mission Santa Clara and Mission San Francisco, including 360 people to Mission Santa Clara and the entire Huichun village populations of the East Bay to Mission San Francisco. In March 1795, this migration was followed almost immediately ...
Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. / 35.97250°N 106.09278°W / 35.97250; -106.09278. Santa Clara Pueblo (in Tewa: Khaʼpʼoe Ówîngeh [xɑ̀ʔp’òː ʔówîŋgè]) "Singing Water Village", also known as "Village of Wild Roses" [ 5] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States and a federally ...