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  2. Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. Architecture of the California missions - Wikipedia

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    Site selection and layout Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in Oceanside, California. ... at Mission San Fernando Rey de España in 1916.

  4. Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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    Mission sites, selection and layout. Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, circa 1910. This mission ... Mission San Fernando Rey de España: 1,367 children baptized

  6. Visit 10 sacred Spanish missions and sites in San ... - AOL

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    The oldest parts of San Fernando Cathedral go back 300 years to the founding of the city, when it served the church for the San Antonio colonists, as opposed to the five surviving missions, which ...

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

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    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 ...

  8. Mission San Gabriel Arcángel - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Gabriel Arcángel (Spanish: Misión de San Gabriel Arcángel) is a Californian mission and historic landmark in San Gabriel, California.It was founded by the Spanish Empire on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary," September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become twenty-one Spanish missions in California.

  9. Mission San Miguel Arcángel - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a Spanish mission in San Miguel, California. It was established on July 25, 1797, by the Franciscan order, on a site chosen specifically due to the large number of Salinan Indians that inhabited the area, whom the Spanish priests wanted to evangelize. The mission remains in use as a parish church of the Diocese ...