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__**Mission San Rafael Arcangel **__

 __ Created by: Abitha Devendran __ ===**__Mission location __**=== San Rafael Arcangel is located in San Rafael, California. This location is suitable because of it's rich fertile land and also it is near the ocea n.

__**Founding of the mission ** __ This mission is founded by Fray Narcisco Duran, Fray Jose Ramen Abella, Fray Gil, Fray Vincent Francisco Surria. The mission was founded in Dec, 14th 1817.

__**Building of the mission ** __  One mexican general was asked to draw the old mission so, they could reconstruct a new mission. The mission had 10 main rooms and some rooms for unmarried Indians and workers in the kitchen.Other Indians lives in their village. To make the mission they used concrete and adobe. The mission looked like a large four sided building. The church was the largest part of the compound.

__**Life at the mission **__ Some people who lived at the mission are Indians who worked there, friars, and neophytes. Some jobs in the mission are farmers, weavers,and teachers. For entertainment they played games with hoops, poles, and sticks. They played for white shells. At the mission people ate hot chocolate, atole, mutton, beans, corn, and for the old and sick they gave milk.

__**Indians at the missions ** __  Some Indian tribes are the Miwok and Ohlone tribes. A schedule for a daily Indian would be going down to the mass first. Later, they would eat breakfast. The they would do their morning chores. Then they would eat their midday meal. If their home had not been the mission it would have been houses made out of hollow reeds. Their houses would have been near rivers or bays. Outside would be shells that they had gathered and eaten. The Europeans wanted the Indians to live in the mission because they wanted to bring the christianity religion to the Indians. They were treated well because the missionaries cured them when they were sick of European diseases.

__**<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mission today ** __ Today the mission is a tourist spot. They have left all that survived in the mission. Today lots of people visit the mission. It is open for all. The mission is still standing. Mission San Rafael Arcangel does not have a nickname.

__<span style="color: #000000; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bibliography ** __ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> One website is http://missiontour.org/related/nicknames.html. The second book is Mission San Rafael Arcangel by Mary Mull The first book is Mission San Rafael Arcangel by Jacqueline Ching.The second book is Mission San Rafael Arcangel by Mary Null Boule.

__**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Question **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How tall is the mission from top to bottom? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How wide is the mission from left to right? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How long is the church from left to right?