Mission San Gabriel Arcángel (San Gabriel Mission) (San Gabriel, California) | historic landmark, religious organisation

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428 South Mission Drive
San Gabriel, CA 91776
(626) 457-3035

www.sangabrielmission.org

The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. Site of the first hospital in Alta California, the settlement was founded by Spaniards of the Franciscan order on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary" September 8, 1771 as the fourth of what would become 21 Spanish missions in California. San Gabriel Arcángel, often referred to as the "Godmother of the Pueblo of Los Angeles", was designed by Father Antonio Cruzado who hailed from Córdoba, Spain. Cruzado gave the building its strong Moorish architectural influence. The capped buttresses and the tall, narrow windows are unique among the missions of the California chain. The original site for the mission carried the Indian name Sibagna, or Tobiscagna.