View inside the Sacred Heart Mission in Cataldo, Idaho.
View of the front entrance of the Sacred Heart Mission in Cataldo, Idaho.
Photo courtesy of Kathleen Durfee, Coeur d’Alene’s Old Mission State Park
Nearly 10 years after Jesuit missionaries arrived in northern Idaho in 1842 upon the invitation of the Coeur d’Alene and Salish tribes, they built the Mission of the Sacred Heart. The oldest building in Idaho, the mission now lies within Old Mission State Park in Cataldo, which features a world-class exhibit examining the complex relationship between the missionaries and the Native American tribes. The exhibit, “Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet & the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West,” includes artifacts from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
View inside the Sacred Heart Mission in Cataldo, Idaho.
Photo courtesy of Kathleen Durfee, Coeur d’Alene’s Old Mission State Park
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