• 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.
  • It was named for Didacus of Alcalá. ... The Spanish expedition that founded Mission San Diego brought great hardship and an enormous loss of lives.
  • Luis Jayme, our second pastor, martyred here at the Mission San Diego de Alcala on this date in 1775.
  • 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.
  • The current church at Mission San Diego de Alcalá is the 5th church to stand in this location since San Diego was first settled in 1542.
  • ...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.
  • Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá stands as a testament to California's early roots, a place where past and spirituality intertwine.
  • Visit the San Diego Mission Basilica de Alcala, San Diego's oldest mission, founded in 1769.
  • In 1801, an earthquake seriously damaged Mission San Diego de Alcalá. In 1833, the mission was secularized and sold in 1845.
  • In 1797 there were 565 new Indians added to the mission which brought the total to 1,400 Indians living at the Mission San Diego de Alcala.
  • For an ideal look at early California and the hardships Father Serra endured, just take the trolley to the MISSION SAN DIEGO stop and explore .. ..
  • Father Melcor (Luis) Jayme became pastor of Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1771 and was instrumental in moving the mission to its present site...
  • Mission San Diego (California’s Heritage Series), 1988. Weber, F.J. The Proto Mission: A Documentary History of San Diego de Alcalá, 1980.