San Fernando Mission
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Mission San Fernando Rey de España, c. 1880
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| Location | 15151 San Fernando Mission Blvd. Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California 91345 |
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| Coordinates | 34°16′23″N 118°27′40″W / 34.2731°N 118.4612°WCoordinates: 34°16′23″N 118°27′40″W / 34.2731°N 118.4612°W |
| Name as founded | La Misión del Señor Fernando, Rey de España |
| English translation | The Mission of Saint Ferdinand, King of Spain |
| Patron | Ferdinand III of Castile |
| Nickname(s) | "Mission of the Valley" |
| Founding date | September 8, 1797 |
| Founding priest(s) | Father Fermín Lasuén |
| Founding Order | Seventeenth |
| Military district | Second |
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Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) |
Tataviam, Tongva Fernandeno, Gabrielińo |
| Native place name(s) | 'Achooykomenga, Pasheeknga |
| Baptisms | 2,784 |
| Marriages | 827 |
| Burials | 1,983 |
| Secularized | 1834 (Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando) |
| Returned to the Church | 1861 |
| Governing body | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles |
| Current use | Chapel-of-ease/Museum |
| Designated | 1971 |
| Delisted | 1974 |
| Reference no. | 71001076 |
| Designated | October 27, 1988 |
| Reference no. | 88002147 |
| Reference no. | #157 |
| Reference no. | 23 |
Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills district of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on September 8, 1797, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California. Named for Saint Ferdinand, the mission is the namesake of the nearby city of San Fernando and the San Fernando Valley.
The mission was secularized in 1834 and returned to the Catholic Church in 1861; it became a working church in 1920. Today the mission grounds function as a museum; the church is a chapel of ease of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
In 1769, the Spanish Portola expedition, first Europeans to see inland areas of California, traveled north through the San Fernando Valley on August 7 and camped at a watering place near where the mission was later established in 1888 Fray Juan Crespi, a Franciscan missionary travelling with the expedition, noted in his diary that the camp was "at the foot of the mountains".
Mission San Fernando Rey de España was founded on September 8, 1797 by Father Fermín Lasuén, making it the fourth mission site he had established in as many months. The prime location the padre selected had been occupied by Francisco Reyes (then Los Angeles' mayor). However, after brief negotiations construction of the first buildings was soon underway (Mission records list Reyes as godfather to the first infant baptized at San Fernando).
The goals of the missions were, first, to spread the message of Christianity and, second, to establish a Spanish colony. Because of the difficulty of delivering supplies by sea, the missions had to become self-sufficient in relatively short order. Toward that end, neophytes were taught European-style farming, animal husbandry, mechanical arts and domestic crafts.
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