Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was founded Sept. 1, 1772. There are a series of celebration events planned for this year, the 250th year of its founding. This view is from Feb. 9, 2022.

250 years later, Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa still stands. “A mission is a verb before a noun. It is what we do,” added Father Russell Brown, the San Luis Obispo Mission’s pastor.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is a Spanish mission founded on Sept. 1, 1772, by Father Junípero Serra in San Luis Obispo. The mission is located at 751 Palm Street and the gift shop and ...

The founding of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa put the town on the Vatican and Spain’s map of the world 250 years ago. The Northern Chumash lived in the nearby village of Tixilini.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was the fifth to be established by the Spanish in California. Michael LaFreniere, docent, and Dan Krieger, chair of the Mission San Luis Obispo Museum and ...

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa . 751 Palm St. (at Broad Street), San Luis Obispo; (805) 781-8220. www.missionsanluisobispo.org. The mission is open daily from 7 or 7:30 a.m.

San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Fifth mission 1772 Explore all of California’s 21 famed missions >> This mission may have been one of the first to use tiles extensively on its roof instead of thatch ...

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was the fifth to be established by the Spanish in California. Michael LaFreniere, docent, and Dan Krieger, chair of the Mission San Luis Obispo Museum and ...