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Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, San Luis Obispo County, California. It was established on July 25, 1797 by the Franciscan order, on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize.The mission remains in use as a parish church of the Diocese of Monterey. After being closed to the public for six years due to the 2003 San Simeon earthquake, the church reopened on September 29, 2009. Inside the church are murals designed by Esteban Munras.The mission was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and was named to a National Historic Landmark in 2006.Features The Mission Arcade, a series of 12 arches, is original. The variety of shapes and sizes was planned and the Mission was known for this arcade. The first chapel on the site was replaced within a year of its construction by a larger adobe chapel, which burned in the 1806 fire. The current mission church was built between 1816 and 1818. It is 144 long, 27ft wide, and 40ft high. The cemetery adjacent to the church holds the remains of 2,249 Native Americans listed in the Mission's burial records. The painted walls inside the church are the original artwork by artist Esteban Munras and other Salinan artists.

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Artwork by Esteban Munras and other Salinan artists ,   National Register of Historic Places ,   Burial services for Native Americans ,   National Historic Landmark ,   The Mission Arcade ,   Church services ,   Mission San Miguel Arcangel