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Mission San Jose was founded in 1797. The original church building was constructed out of adobe and completed in 1809. The church was nearly completely destroyed by the 1868 earthquake. A new church constructed of wood what built on the rock foundation of the old church. However, the wooden building was moved and the San Jose Mission church was rebuilt (restored) to look like the original; construction completed in 1985. The mission is still used for religious services and has a unique historical collection of artifacts in a museum in one of the remaining original adobe buildings next door that survived the great earthquake. Click here to see a historic (pre-1868 Hayward earthquake) view of the mission. |
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