Mission Dolores (San Francisco)
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).
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 Location in Central San Francisco
Mission San Francisco De Asís (California)
Mission San Francisco De Asís (the US)
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| Location | 320 Dolores Street San Francisco, California 94114 |
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| Coordinates | 37°45′51.8″N 122°25′37.3″W / 37.764389°N 122.427028°WCoordinates: 37°45′51.8″N 122°25′37.3″W / 37.764389°N 122.427028°W |
| Name as founded | La Misión de Nuestro Padre San Francisco |
| English translation | The Mission of Our Father Saint Francis of Assisi |
| Patron | Saint i |
| Nickname(s) | "Mission Dolores" |
| Founding date | June 29, 1776 |
| Founding priest(s) |
Junípero Serra <rfoundingorder=Sixth |
| Military district | Fourth |
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Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) |
Ohlone Costeño |
| Native place name(s) | Chutchui |
| Baptisms | 6,898 |
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| 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 |
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| http://www.missiondolores.org | |
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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 October 9, 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. Some of the Mission's buildings have been turned into business including a print shop, and several saloons.
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.
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