Spanish Missions:
San Miguel Arcángel de Oposura

"San Miguel Arcángel de Oposura (today's Moctezuma), was located on the Río Moctezuma.  The large burnt brick church with vaulted ceiling, side bays, and an octagonal chapel with a wooden roof was built by unidentified maestros brought to the site at great expense by Father Daniel Janusque sometime before his death in 1724.  It continued under two of his successors until it was finished in February 1738.  Oposura was secularized following the Jesuit expulsion and never became a Franciscan mission." (The Pimeria Alta, The Southwestern Mission Research Society)


Oposura as it appeared in 1971.


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