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#13, Nuestra Sonora de la Soledad

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Site and Quadrangle


Mission Nuestra Sonora
de la Soledad
Main Page
Site and Quadrangle
Site and Quadrangle
Chapel
Chapel
Museum
Museum
South Wing
South Wing
West Wing
West Wing
North Wing
North Wing
East Wing
East Wing


Mission from Fort Romie Road (from the north).

Sign at entrance to the site.


South side of Chapel and South Wing.


South side of Chapel and South Wing.

South side of Chapel and South Wing.


Front of restored mission buildings on a rainy Christmas Day in 2003.

Mission as seen from the driveway on a rainy Christmas Day in 2003


Church in the rain on Christmas Day 2003.

One side of quadrangle in the rain on Christmas Day 2003.


Church and sign.

Sign.


Church and Museum building.

South Wing.


South side of the South Wing.


Garden to south of South Wing.

Statue and bird bath.



Shrine.


Statue.



Cross. Photo date: 12-25-03.






Cross west of the Chapel.
Cross.
Cross.


Grapes.

Barbeque.


Barbeque.



The interior of the Quadrangle.



Fountain
Fountain. Photo date: 12-25-03.

Fountain.


Fountain.

Marker. Lt. Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza bt decree of Carlos III of Spain led an expedition to this site, the mission being to colonize the San Francisco Bay Area.



Looking south fro mteh North Wing.


Quadrangle looking west.

Fountain in the center of the Quadrangle.

Quadrangle and East Wing.

Looking at the Quadrangle from the west.

Quadrangle looing out from the southeast corner.

Quadrangle and North Wing.

Mission Nuestra Sonora
de la Soledad
Main Page
Site and Quadrangle
Site and Quadrangle
Chapel
Chapel
Museum
Museum
South Wing
South Wing
West Wing
West Wing
North Wing
North Wing
East Wing
East Wing

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