Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
in San Luis Obispo, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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P.O. Box 460, San Luis Obispo, CA 92406, United States Print route »
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Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa (Spanish: Misión San Luís Obispo de Tolosa) is a Spanish mission founded in 1772 by Father Junípero Serra in San Luis Obispo, California. Named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse, the mission is the namesake San Luis Obispo. Today, the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa offers tours of the beautiful church and its gardens, school, and small museum that holds a collection of artifacts of the mission's history. Unlike other California missions, the San Luis Obispo Mission is open to the public every day of the year and is still a very popular parish for the town's Catholic community.The Mission church of San Luis Obispo is unusual in its design in that its combination of belfry and vestibule is found nowhere else among the California missions. The main nave is short and narrow (as is the case with other mission churches), but at San Luis Obispo there is a secondary nave of almost equal size situated to the right of the altar, making this the only L-shaped mission church among all of the California missions. The mission church today is a parish church of the Diocese of Monterey.
