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Website. www .missiongarden .org. Mission Garden is a living agricultural museum near Sentinel Peak in Tucson, Arizona. Its adobe walls enclose four acres of heritage crops and heirloom trees that represent people who have lived in the Sonoran Desert over the past 4,000 years.
Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón was a presidio ( colonial Spanish fort) located within Tucson, Arizona, United States. The original fortress was built by Spanish soldiers during the 18th century and was the founding structure of what became the city of Tucson. After the American arrival in 1846, the original walls were dismantled, with the ...
Mission San Xavier del Bac: near Tucson: 1692 () Jesuits: 1692–1770, 1783–1837, 1859–present. The extant mission church was completed in 1797. Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas: Rio Rico: 1755 () Jesuits: Abandoned in 1786. Mission San José de Tumacácori: Tumacacori: 1757 () Jesuits
October 9, 1960 [3] Mission San Xavier del Bac ( Spanish: La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino [1] in the center of a centuries ...
The property is a series of buildings scattered throughout a natural desert setting. Built in Tucson near the intersection of Swan Road and Skyline the property is now a museum open to the public. Construction began in 1951 with the open air Mission in the Sun followed by a series of other expressionistic adobe buildings.
Mission San Fernando de las Amarillas del Carrizal: 1773 () Jesuits Mission San Andrés Conicari ... Tucson, AZ: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society. Burrus, E. J ...
Cathedral of Saint Augustine (Tucson, Arizona) / 32.2194°N 110.9714°W / 32.2194; -110.9714. The Cathedral of Saint Augustine ( Spanish: Catedral de San Agustín) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson. It is located in Tucson, Arizona .
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) operates 410 missions [1] throughout the world, as of July 2022. Most are named after the location of the mission headquarters, usually a specific city. The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are ...