Santa Barbara

							   Santa Barbra Mission
   Laguna St, Santa
    Barbara, CA
   Father Fermin Lasuen
   Founded Dec-4-1786
    and Dec-16-1786




    Mission Information
• Originally from wood logs with a straw roof.
• In 1789 an adobe church was built
• A new one built out of sandstone
• Two matching bell towers, one on each side, eighty seven feet tall
• The length of the Mission is 161 feet long, 27 feet wide, and 42 feet high, with
  walls that are 6 feet thick
• Buildings formed a quadrangle with the church.
• Still used today.




                                                    Materials Used
                                                  Chumash Indians
                                          •   Church twice a day
                                          •   Work at a given task
                                          •   New clothes every 6 or 7 months
                                          •   Shirts and pants for men
                                          •   Skirts and blouses for women
                                          •   Food they ate:
                                              acorns, pine nuts, shell fish, fish
                                              caught in nets or harpooned,
           Spanish Padre                      birds and small animals hunted
• Taught children the religion in the         with bows and arrows.
  morning and the afternoon
• Taught some of the boys to speak
  Spanish

               Soldiers
• Protected the mission from outsiders.
• Would beat and jail the Chumash
  when they disobeyed
• Track down the Indians and bring
  them back to the mission
                                                           Mission Life
            Building
• 1786 Built from wood logs with a
  straw roof.
• 1789 An adobe church built
• 1794 Bigger adobe church
• 1812 Earthquake damaged, built
  a new one out of sandstone
• 1925 Another earthquake in and
  the church had to be repaired



     1925 Earthquake

                                            Important Events
                                     •1786 Founding date
                                     •1824 Indians revolted
                                     •1834 Secularized
                                     •1846 Governor sold Mission
                                     •1850 Mission returned to Catholic
                                     Church
                                                   Mission History
Known for its water system and
part of it is still being used today.   Priests would lock the
                                        women in their room at night.




                                          Fountain has been there
                                          since 1808 – 204 years old.




                                          Father Fermin Lasuen was
                                          founder, the first of nine that
                                          he founded.
  Father Serra tried to get this
  Mission started in 1782.                    Interesting Facts