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Mission San Gabriel Arcangel
$22.00
The fourth of California's twenty-one missions, and the only one whose architect trained in Córdoba. Father Antonio Cruzado gave it capped buttresses and narrow windows. A fortress for prayer, on the plain east of what is now downtown Los Angeles. Six bells hang in the campanario, the oldest cast in 1795. A fire took the wooden roof in the summer of 2020. The community rebuilt, and the church reopened on the 252nd anniversary of its founding, to the day. The Tongva have lived in this valley far longer than any of it.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.