Mission San Diego de Alcalá

Mission San Diego de Alcalá
National Register of Historic Places
National Historic Landmark
Mission San Diego de Alcalá
location
Coordinates	32 ° 47 '4 "  N , 117 ° 6' 23"  W Coordinates: 32 ° 47 '4 "  N , 117 ° 6' 23"  W.
Built	1769
architect	Jose Bernardo Sanchez
NRHP number	70000144
The NRHP added	April 15, 1970

The interior of the church

Aerial photo (2011)

Mission San Diego de Alcalá was the first Franciscan mission station of the Spaniards in California , at the time a province of the viceroyalty of New Spain ( Upper California ).

The Mission La Misión San Diego de Alcalá (then name) was founded in what is now San Diego on July 16, 1769 by the Spanish monk Junípero Serra . The property was previously on the tribal territory of the Kumeyaay indigenous people .

The mission station and the surrounding area were named after the Catholic missionary Didakus von Alcalá. The church, because of its historical importance in 1975 by Pope Paul VI. for minor Basilica collected, as well as other buildings belong to or the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego .

Monument aspects

The building complex has been a California Historical Landmark since 1936 and a National Historic Landmark since April 15, 1970 . On the same day it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

See also

• List of entries on the National Register of Historic Places in San Diego County
• List of National Historic Landmarks in California
• Spanish missions in California
• History of California
• List of basilicas of the Roman Catholic Church

literature

• Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1884-1880). History of California, vols. i-vii (1542-1890). The History Company, San Francisco, CA. Check date values ​​in: | date = (help)
• Chapman, Charles E. (1921). A History of California; The Spanish Period. The MacMillan Company, New York, NY.
• Davidson, Winifred (January 1955). "San Diego in One Easy Lesson". The Journal of San Diego History. 1 (1): 2-3.
• Engelhardt, Zephyrin, OFM (1920). San Diego Mission. James H. Barry Company, San Francisco, CA.
• Engelhardt, Zephyrin, OFM (1922). San Juan Capistrano Mission. Standard Printing Co., Los Angeles, CA.
• Forbes, Alexander (1839). California: A History of Upper and Lower California. Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, London.
• Jones, Terry L. and Kathryn A. Klar (eds.) (2007). California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Altimira Press, Landham, MD. ISBN 0-7591-0872-2 .
• Krell, Dorothy (ed.) (1979). The California Missions: A Pictorial History. Sunset Publishing Corporation, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-376-05172-8 .
• Leffingwell, Randy (2005). California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions. Voyageur Press, Inc., Stillwater, MN. ISBN 0-89658-492-5 .
• Morrison, Hugh (1987). Early American Architecture: From the First Colonial Settlements to the National Period. Dover Publications, New York, NY. ISBN 0-486-25492-5 .
• Paddison, Joshua (ed.) (1999). A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA. ISBN 1-890771-13-9 .
• Robinson, WW (1948). Country in California. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA.
• Ruscin, Terry (1999). Mission Memoirs. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego, CA. ISBN 0-932653-30-8 .
• Stern, Jean & Gerald J. Miller (1995). Romance of the Bells: The California Missions in Art. The Irvine Museum, Irvine, CA. ISBN 0-9635468-5-6 .
• Yenne, Bill (2004). The Missions of California. Advantage Publishers Group, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1-59223-319-8 .
• Young, Stanley & Melba Levick (1988). The Missions of California. Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, CA. ISBN 0-8118-3694-0 .

Web links

Commons : Mission San Diego de Alcalá  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leffingwell, Randy (2005). California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions. Voyageur Press, Inc., Stillwater, MN. ISBN 0-89658-492-5 , p. 17.
2. ^ Yenne, Bill (2004). The Missions of California. Advantage Publishers Group, San Diego, CA. ISBN 1-59223-319-8 , p. 24.
3. ↑ http://www.missionsandiego.org/visit/history/questions-answers/
4. ↑ http://www.missionsandiego.org/visit/history/
5. ↑ gcatholic.org
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html

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