Mission San Fernando Rey de España
Mission San Fernando Rey de España in Mission Hills was founded by Father Fermín Lasuén on September 8, 1797. It was the seventeenth of the twenty one Spanish missions established in Alta California. Today the mission grounds function as a museum; the church is a chapel of ease of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The mission is organized around a large quadrangle with a simple adobe church located in one corner. A Convento (the padre’s quarters and a guest house) branches off the quadrangle. It has a stunning colonnade with 19 arches, bordering the full length of the building. The church’s altar, reredos and pulpit (carved from walnut) date to 1687 and were originally housed in the Chapel of St. Philip Neri in Ezcaray, Spain. The Mission is a California Historical Landmark and Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
Mission Hills, Los Angeles County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt