Mission Rd., San Antonio, Texas. County/parish: Bexar.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 23, 1972. NRIS 72001352.
5 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.
Mission San Juan Capistrano (originally christened in 1716 as La Misión San José de los Nazonis and located in South Central Texas) was founded in 1731 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order, on the eastern banks of the San Antonio River in present-day San Antonio, Texas. The new settlement (part of a chain of Spanish missions) was named for a 15th-century theologian and warrior priest who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The mission San Juan was named after Saint John of Capestrano.
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