While California’s missions are still beloved by many people of faith, Saturday’s blaze at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel came as their legacy throughout California have been called into question.

The Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in San Gabriel on Thursday, Sept. 8th, 2022. The location sustained major damage from a July 2020 fire. (Photo by Michael Ares, Contributing Photographer) ...

It’s been nearly three years since Mission San Gabriel Arcángel closed its doors to visitors. But on Saturday, July 1, those doors swung wide open as the landmark structure – known as the ...

While California’s missions are still beloved by many people of faith, Saturday’s blaze at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel came as their legacy throughout California have been called into question.

It was July 10, 2020, when a fire that began in the adobe and wood building’s choir loft consumed the roof of the mission — Mission San Gabriel Arcángel — and seriously damaged its interior. Scores of ...