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Address: 428 S Mission Dr, San Gabriel, CA 91776 Phone: (626) 457-3035 Website: http://parish.sangabrielmissionchurch.org/
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Review Summary
Juan Pablo Vazquez-Enriquez
This place as it currently sits is beautiful with a dark history.
Santos Zuniga
First weekend of September we celebrate the church’s birthday.
Juan Pablo Vazquez-Enriquez
Stopped by and visited on this National day of Mourning. This place as it currently sits is beautiful with a dark history.San Gabriel Mission like all other missions held Natives as slaves. They forced them to follow Christianity and usually didn’t allow them to leave unless they were trusted.Many Natives would run away from missions throughout the history of the Missions. If they were ever captured by the soldiers and brought back they would have their backs whipped, some until their deaths.After experiencing oppression and horror, Natives started rebellion and started fighting for their freedom.Any Native who was considered a leader would be sentence to death if captured.
Gwendoline Smith
What remains of the mission’s original buildings are mostly fragments located in a well laid out tract of land between two churches. Here the story of the mission from its founding to its expansion and appropriation by the Mexican state and on to the present, is laid out in well organized information plaques and exhibits that can be viewed in an orderly sequence. Visitors learn about the beginnings of California’s wine industry and can touch the original vine stock which still grows in a courtyard. The well, cistern, ovens, candle and soap vats, tanneries, and other facilities are on display as well as a selection of cultivated vegetation like olive trees and a fascinating kapok tree. There is also a museum with religious and cultural relics including a silver baptismal font and ladle presented by one of the Spanish monarchs. I especially appreciated the maps that showed how water was brought from the surrounding hills and how the nearby land was divided into different uses. You may encounter knots of school kids on organized tours that are integrated into the state’s history of California curriculum. The kids tend to outnumber all other visitors and they can be boisterous when ringing the bell and rushing about taking selfies but they were all good-natured and polite when we were there. You could easily spend a couple hours here and come away with a new appreciation for the role of missions in the development of the state. Plaudits to the preservationists who have kept this enterprise going.
Santos Zuniga
Been going this mission all my life along with my parents. First weekend of September we celebrate the church’s birthday.