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The Mission District (Spanish: Distrito de la Misión), [4] commonly known as the Mission (Spanish: La Misión), [5] is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.One of the oldest neighborhoods in San Francisco, the Mission District's name is derived from Mission San Francisco de Asís, built in 1776 by the Spanish. [6]
Mission Dolores is the oldest neighborhood in San Francisco and therefore its birthplace. It is named after the Spanish Mission Dolores settlement of 1776, and is a sub-area of the much larger Mission District .
The Outer Mission was developed around the 1910s as an extension of the nearby Mission District. The area was serviced by the Southern Pacific Railroad. Before the area was developed it largely consisted of farms, providing the city with Swiss chard and potatoes. Like the Mission, many of its original residents were of Irish and Italian descent.
The name was adopted in 1952 to commemorate Bishop Louis-Joseph d'Herbomez, OMI ( -1890), who on March 28, 1862 had purchased the land the creek flows through for the location of the Indian mission which is the namesake of the District of Mission. [1]
The Mission Dolores adobe chapel, constructed in 1776. It is the oldest structure in San Francisco. The Mission Dolores Basilica, constructed in 1918. It was designated a basilica by Pope Pius XII in 1952. Located in the Mission District, the mission complex was founded on October 9, 1776, by Frs Francisco Palóu and Pedro Benito
Traffic flow is limited – one main north access through Castro Street to Eureka Valley, one main west access up Clipper Street toward the former Twin Peaks toll plaza and west of the city, several east accesses to the Mission District through 24th Street, Cesar Chavez, and other numbered streets, and the main north–south Church Street ...
Due to the 2020 redistricting, California's 11th district has effectively been shifted to the former geography of the 12th district.The district encompasses the city of San Francisco almost entirely, except for the neighborhoods of Crocker Amazon, Excelsior, Little Hollywood, Mission Terrace, Oceanview, Outer Mission, Portola, and Visitacion Valley.
The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are within the jurisdiction of a mission of the church. In the list below, if the name of the mission does not include a specific city, the city where the mission headquarters is located is included in parentheses.