Mission San Juan Bautista

In December 2012, CyArk partnered with California State University Monterey Bay, the California Missions Foundation, and the San Juan Bautista parish to digitally document Mission San Juan Bautista. Western Digital supported the project's field data collection through the generous donation of portable hard drives. Mission San Juan Bautista is the fourth California Mission to become part of CyArk's Digital El Camino Real de California project, which aims to digitally document all twenty-one mission along El Camino Real established by the Spanish in Alta California. Remnants of Spanish colonization of the Americas, Mission San Juan Bautista provides a window into the development of the American West and the beginnings of the state of California. From its initial construction in 1797, the area surrounding the building has transformed over time becoming a colonial Spanish mission, Mexican pueblo, and finally an American town. The Mission San Juan Bautista encapsulates the inventive artistic influence of Spanish colonial artists seen in the church's collection of apostolate paintings. The church also embodies the effects of Spanish colonist's program of religious and cultural conversion on local Native American communities marked in the adobe structure, which local American Indian laborers from the Mutsun tribe mostly constructed. Mission San Juan Bautista and the surrounding historic district are touchstones for understanding the diversity of cultural influences that have shaped life in California today. External Project Link: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/NQJydYx20sqaIg Additional Info Link: https://cyark.org/projects/mision-san-juan-bautista-de-ligui