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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.
The Convento Building, known for its iconic arched portico or colonnade, was built between 1808 and 1822 and is the only original building remaining at the Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the Mission Hills section of San Fernando Valley in California in the United States.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. 18th to 19th-century Catholic religious outposts in California For the establishments in modern-day Mexico, see Spanish missions in Baja California. The locations of the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California. Part of a series on Spanish missions in the Americas of the Catholic Church ...
Remains of wells built of mission tiles around 1800 by Tongva Indians from the Mission San Fernando Rey de España to provide water to the mission; taken over by the Department of Water and Power in 1919, the 6-acre (24,000 m 2) well site is the oldest existing source of water supply in the city, other than the Los Angeles River [4]
The property adjoins the San Fernando Mission and Bishop Alemany Catholic High School. The San Fernando Mission Cemetery has been owned and operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese since the founding of the Mission and first burials in 1797. The privately operated Mission Hills Catholic Mortuary is also located on the grounds of the cemetery.
The Mission San Fernando Rey de España (named after St. Ferdinand) was founded in 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, an agricultural rancho established by Juan Francisco Reyes for Pueblo de Los Ángeles worked by Ventureño Chumash, Fernandeño (Tongva), and Tataviam laborers.
The entire trail eventually became a 600-mile (966-kilometer) long "California Mission Trail." ... Mission San Fernando Rey de España: 1797 Los Angeles
The first group of ten children baptized on the day the mission was established were said to be from Achooykomenga." [9] At total of 22 people from Achooykomenga and 32 people from Pasheeknga were baptized at Mission San Fernando between 1797 and 1801, indicating that the settlements were quickly absorbed after the founding of the mission. [1]