• Welcome to Mission San Diego de Alcalá. California’s first mission was founded on July 16, 1769 by Saint Junípero Serra, a Franciscan priest.
  • A painting of Mission San Diego de Alcalá as it appeared in 1848 depicts the original campanario ("bell tower"), before it was reduced to rubble.
  • Mission San Diego de Alcalá was founded July 16th 1769 by Father Junípero Serra. ... In 1931 Mission San Diego was restored to the way it looks today.
  • Built in 1769, Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá is a very well preserved example of colonial architecture; one that fully deserves a visit when exploring...
  • Mission San Diego de Alcala is getting a facelift, literally. Our latest restoration project will help protect and preserve our church for the future.
  • ...twenty-one California missions, Mission San Diego de Alcalá is named after the 15th-century saint, Didacus of Alcalá, more commonly known as Saint Diego.
  • After detailed historical research, in restoration and rebuilding work began in 1931 to bring Mission San Diego de Alcalá back to its 1813 appearance.
  • San Diego occupies a unique place in California’s history, as the site of the first of the California missions, and one of four Spanish presidios.
  • Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the great California missions , marks the origin of Christianity in the American west.
  • In 1801, an earthquake seriously damaged Mission San Diego de Alcalá. ... In 1862, the United States returned San Diego de Alcalá to the Catholic Church.
  • San Diego Mission De Alcala Presidio Hill was converted into a park and the Serra museum erected under George Marston Several ghosts are said to haunt it.
  • Then in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation returning Mission San Diego de Alcalá to the Catholic Church, but it was already in ruins.
  • Mission San Diego de Alcala is also known as Mission Basilica. It was the first Franciscan mission in San Diego, California and the Las Californias...