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Mission San Fernando Rey de España. / 34.2731; -118.4612. 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.
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 ...
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 recognized image of ...
Chumash-Ventureño Chief Odón Eusebia (1795–), his son-in-law Urbano (1799–), and Urbano’s son Mañuel (1822–), were the grantees of Rancho El Escorpión, formerly San Fernando Mission (Mission San Fernando Rey de España) lands. Urbano Chari was one of just three Indians listed in the 1850 who owned valuable real estate.
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. Prior to the mission's founding, in the 1780s, it functioned as a shared native settlement for an agricultural rancho of Pueblo de Los Ángeles that was worked by ...
The St. Ferdinand the King Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de San Fernando Rey de Resistencia), also called Resistencia Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Resistencia, Argentina. It is the seat of the Archdiocese of Resistencia, and the head of an ecclesiastical province which covers the Argentine provinces of Chaco and Formosa. It was ...
The Royal and Military Order of Saint Ferdinand ( Spanish: Real y Militar Orden de San Fernando ), is a Spanish military order of chivalry, the decoration of which, the Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand ( Spanish: Cruz Laureada de San Fernando ), is Spain 's highest military decoration for gallantry. Membership of the order, which is sometimes ...
The Spanish missions in California — originally built between 1769 and 1833, with their sites & restored structures in present-day California. Founded in the Spanish colonial Las Californias (1768–1804) and Alta California (1804–1822) provinces, and the Mexican Alta California territory (1822–1848). Map all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap.