WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Fernando_Rey_de...

    Official website. Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California. Named for Saint Ferdinand, the mission is the ...

  3. Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convento_Building_(Mission...

    The building. The Convento is a large two-story building, measuring approximately 243 feet (74 m) long and 50 feet (15 m) wide. It has four-foot-thick adobe walls and was built in stages between approximately 1808 and 1822. [ 2] The long portico, sometimes referred to as the colonnade, in front of the building has 20 arches and is the most ...

  4. Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misión_San_Fernando_Rey_de...

    Cochimí. Mission San Fernando Velicatá ( Spanish: Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá) was a Spanish mission located about 56 km (35 mi) southeast of El Rosario in Baja California, Mexico. The mission was founded in 1769 by Franciscan missionary Junípero Serra and was the only mission founded by Franciscan missionaries in what ...

  5. Achooykomenga - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achooykomenga

    Achooykomenga. Achooykomenga and the nearby village of Pasheeknga are referred to as the site of Mission San Fernando when it was founded in 1797. Achooykomenga (Hispanicized: Achoicominga or Achoycomihabit) is a former settlement that was located at the site of Mission San Fernando Rey de España before it was founded in 1797.

  6. Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Ex-Mission_San_Fernando

    Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando was a 116,858-acre (472.91 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, granted in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Eulogio F. de Celis. [1] The grant derives its name from the secularized Mission San Fernando Rey de España, but was called ex-Mission because of a division made of the lands ...

  7. List of Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_missions...

    Two Franciscan missions, Mission Puerto de Purísima Concepción and Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuñer, were constructed within the present-day borders of California but were administered as part of the Spanish missions of Pimería Alta. As such, they are not considered a part of the 21 missions of Alta California.

  8. Mission Indians - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Indians

    Mission Indians are the Indigenous peoples of California who lived in Southern california and were forcibly relocated from their traditional dwellings, villages, and homelands to live and work at 15 Franciscan missions in Southern California and the Asistencias and Estancias established between 1769 and 1823 in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.

  9. Brand Park (Memory Garden) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_Park_(Memory_Garden)

    Brand Park Sign. Brand Park is a recreation facility in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.It is located directly south of the Mission San Fernando Rey de España.Its western section contains the historic Brand Park Memory Garden along with the Brand Park Community Center which is used as a multi-purpose area for events.