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La Purisima
Mission la Purisima Concepcion is Purisima was
officially founded Decem-
situated near Lompoc, north of Santa ber 8, 1787. In style,
Barbara. It consists of two Missions. dimensions it was the decorations and
The older, known as Mission Vieja or of the Missions. least pretentious
Its
old Mission, to distinguish it from its peculiar in that parts construction was
buildings
successor, is near the town, while the were in two stories of and the that
latter is located some three miles north- the
church formed a room merely in the
west of town. Both are in ruins. La
great building which had many rooms.

Santa Ynez
Mission Santa Ynez was founded by
speedily completed, but the earthquake
Padre Presidente Tapis in 1804, being of 1812 caused the partial collapse of the
the first founded in the nineteenth cen- structure. A new church was immedi-
tury. The first Mission church was a
ately begun and completed in 1817. This
simple structure roofed with tile and is the edifice which the tourist sees today.

Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara is one of the largest, the Franciscan friars.
most beautiful and best built of the Mis- This Mission was
founded December 4, 1786. The Mission
sions. It alone of all the Missions keeps
garden is enclosed by Mission build-
ancient aspect. Rebuilt after the ings, and as no woman may enter here
its
earthquake of 1812, it is preserved and save a reigning sovereign,
it is popularly
still in use, being now a monastery of known as the “Forbidden Garden.”