Mission Concepcion

San Antonio TX

The San Antonio Missions National Historic Park contains four missions within several miles of each other. The missions were built in the early 1700s and have been the center of their communities since then, even today.

Mission Concepcion (full name: Mission Nuestra Senora de la Purisma Concepcion de Acuna) is one of the oldest unrestored stone churches in the USA.

Mission Concepcion served as a religious center, and the missionaries here also taught the inhabitants to function as a European community. The combination of Spanish Catholicism and native cultures produced the unique culture of modern day South Texas.

Mission Concepcion sanctuary.

Decorated for Christmas.

The baby Jesus figure is placed in the stable on Christmas Eve.