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Mission Dolores

Mission San Francisco De Asís
Mission San Francisco De Asís
The original adobe Mission structure is the smaller building at left, while the larger structure is a basilica completed in 1918 (the architectural style was influenced by designs exhibited at San Diego's Panama-California Exposition in 1915).
Mission San Francisco De Asís is located in San Francisco
Mission San Francisco De Asís
Mission San Francisco De Asís is located in California
Mission San Francisco De Asís
Mission San Francisco De Asís is located in the US
Mission San Francisco De Asís
Location in Central San Francisco
Location 320 Dolores Street
San Francisco, California 94114
Coordinates 37°45′51.8″N 122°25′37.3″W / 37.764389°N 122.427028°W / 37.764389; -122.427028Coordinates: 37°45′51.8″N 122°25′37.3″W / 37.764389°N 122.427028°W / 37.764389; -122.427028
Name as founded La Misión de Nuestro Padre San Francisco de Asís 
English translation The Mission of Our Father Saint Francis of Assisi
Patron Saint Francis of Assisi
Nickname(s) "Mission Dolores" 
Founding date June 29, 1776 
Founding priest(s)

Francisco Palóu ;

Junípero Serra  
Founding Order Sixth
Military district Fourth
Native tribe(s)
Spanish name(s)
Ohlone
Costeño
Native place name(s) Chutchui 
Baptisms 6,898
Marriages 2,043
Burials 11,000= 5,000 (Europeans/Americans), 6,000 (Indians)
Secularized 1834
Returned to the Church 1857
Governing body Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco
Current use Parish Church
Designated 1972
Reference no. #72000251
Official name: Site of original Mission Dolores chapel and Dolores Lagoon
Reference no. 327-1
Designated April 11, 1968
Reference no. 1
Website
http://www.missiondolores.org

Francisco Palóu ;

Mission San Francisco de Asís, or Mission Dolores, is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the sixth religious settlement established as part of the California chain of missions. The Mission was founded on June 29, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Francisco Palóu (a companion of Junípero Serra), both members of the de Anza Expedition, which had been charged with bringing Spanish settlers to Alta (upper) California, and evangelizing the local Natives, the Ohlone.

The settlement was named for St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order, but was also commonly known as "Mission Dolores" owing to the presence of a nearby creek named Arroyo de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, meaning "Our Lady of Sorrows Creek." During the expedition of Juan Bautista de Anza, this site was identified by Pedro Font as the most suitable site for a mission in the San Francisco area.

The original Mission consisted of a fall structure dedicated on October 9, 1776, after the required church documents arrived. It was located near what is today the intersection of Camp and Albion Streets (according to most sources), about a block-and-a-half east of the surviving adobe Mission building, and on the shores of a lake (supposedly long since filled) called Laguna de los Dolores. A historical marker at that location depicts this lake, but whether it ever actually existed is a matter of some dispute. (Creek geologists Janet Sowers and Christopher Richard propose that the legendary lake is the result of misunderstandings of Juan Bautista de Anza's 1776 writings. According to their 2011 hydrological map, there were no lakes in the area, only creeks.)


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