San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Fifth mission 1772 Explore all of California’s 21 famed missions >> This mission may have been one of the first to use tiles extensively on its roof instead of thatch ...

One of the original bells, from 1818, hangs outside the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on Friday, December 20, 2013.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was founded Sept. 1, 1772. There are a series of celebration events planned for this year, the 250th year of its founding. This view is from Feb. 9, 2022.

250 years later, Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa still stands. “A mission is a verb before a noun. It is what we do,” added Father Russell Brown, the San Luis Obispo Mission’s pastor.

In 1928 when San Miguel native Dr. Leo Stanley was practicing at San Quentin prison, he had some inmates build large-scale models of Missions San Miguel and San Antonio de Padua.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was founded in September in 1772. It is the fifth of California's 21 missions. The mission system was created by the Spanish to mark and expand their territory.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was the fifth to be established by the Spanish in California. Michael LaFreniere, docent, and Dan Krieger, chair of the Mission San Luis Obispo Museum and ...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - The statue of Saint Junipero Serra was removed from the grounds of the San Luis Obispo Mission on Monday. The Diocese of Monterey, who own the mission property, ...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Pets received blessings from Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa in honor of St. Francis on Monday. The 'Blessing of the Animals' event has been taking place for more than ...