An original bell of the collapsed Great Stone Church (1806-1812) relocated to 1813 Bell Wall at California's Mission San Juan Capistrano.

This original bell of the collapsed Great Stone Church (1806-1812) was relocated to the 1813 Bell Wall at California's Mission San Juan Capistrano, USA. The iconic Bell Wall built in 1813 at California's Mission San Juan Capistrano displays bells recovered from the ruins of the 1806 Great Stone Church which was destroyed by the earthquake of 1812. The two smaller bells are originals and the two larger bells have been recast. The Bell Wall connects the ruins of the Great Stone Church to the Historic Sala building which contains the Legacy of Saint Serra Exhibit. Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded in 1776 by Padre Junípero Serra. Sited next to the native village of Acjacheme, Mission San Juan Capistrano was the seventh in the chain of 21 religious outposts established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the state of California. The missions were established by Catholic priests of the Franciscan order to evangelize indigenous peoples, backed by the military force of the Spanish Empire — part of expansion and settlement within the Alta California province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Mission was named for Saint John of Capistrano (1386–1456) — a friar, Catholic priest, preacher, theologian, inquisitor, and "Soldier Saint" from the Italian town of Capestrano, Abruzzo. The Mission was secularized by the Mexican government in 1833, then returned to the Catholic church in 1865 by proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln. Restoration efforts date from ~1910. Today, the mission compound serves as a museum. Within the compound, Serra's Chapel built in 1782 is the oldest building in California still in use, serving as a chapel for the mission parish — Junipero Serra celebrated Mass here. The adjacent Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano was completed in 1986, designed after the Great Stone Church whose ruins can be visited today.

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This original bell of the collapsed Great Stone Church (1806-1812) was relocated to the 1813 Bell Wall at California's Mission San Juan Capistrano, USA. The iconic Bell Wall built in 1813 at California's Mission San Juan Capistrano displays bells recovered from the ruins of the 1806 Great Stone Church which was destroyed by the earthquake of 1812. The two smaller bells are originals and the two larger bells have been recast. The Bell Wall connects the ruins of the Great Stone Church to the Historic Sala building which contains the Legacy of Saint Serra Exhibit. Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded in 1776 by Padre Junípero Serra. Sited next to the native village of Acjacheme, Mission San Juan Capistrano was the seventh in the chain of 21 religious outposts established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the state of California. The missions were established by Catholic priests of the Franciscan order to evangelize indigenous peoples, backed by the military force of the Spanish Empire — part of expansion and settlement within the Alta California province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The Mission was named for Saint John of Capistrano (1386–1456) — a friar, Catholic priest, preacher, theologian, inquisitor, and "Soldier Saint" from the Italian town of Capestrano, Abruzzo. The Mission was secularized by the Mexican government in 1833, then returned to the Catholic church in 1865 by proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln. Restoration efforts date from ~1910. Today, the mission compound serves as a museum. Within the compound, Serra's Chapel built in 1782 is the oldest building in California still in use, serving as a chapel for the mission parish — Junipero Serra celebrated Mass here. The adjacent Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano was completed in 1986, designed after the Great Stone Church whose ruins can be visited today.