• 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 Alcala is getting a facelift, literally. Our latest restoration project will help protect and preserve our church for the future.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ...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.
  • 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.
  • Mission San Diego de Alcala, San Diego: 393 yorum, makale ve 434 resme bakın.
  • Mission San Diego (California’s Heritage Series), 1988. Weber, F.J. The Proto Mission: A Documentary History of San Diego de Alcalá, 1980.
  • 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.
  • After detailed historical research, in restoration and rebuilding work began in 1931 to bring Mission San Diego de Alcalá back to its 1813 appearance.
  • Visit the San Diego Mission Basilica de Alcala, San Diego's oldest mission, founded in 1769.