Mission San Xavier Del Bac: Present Day

San Xavier del Bac is still in use today mainly in the use of a church but still has a functional school. The Church is open to anyone wanting to worship. The schools as well as the church’s main population are descendants of the original tribes served, the Papago or O’odham tribe.

The School with the Mission in the background

Today what is seen is just a glimpse of what the church would have been like towards the late 1780’s with the exterior being almost identical. As a white dove is the prettiest of the doves, Mission San Xavier del Bac is said to be the prettiest of the Spanish missions scattered throughout the desert.