Mission San Fernando Rey de España
Mission San Fernando Rey de España in a dilapidated state, c. 1885 | |
| Location | 15151 San Fernando Mission Blvd. Los Angeles, California 91345 |
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| Coordinates | 34°16′23″N 118°27′40″W / 34.2731°N 118.4612°W |
| Name as founded | La Misión del Señor Fernando, Rey de España |
| English translation | The Mission of Saint Ferdinand, King of Spain |
| Patron | Ferdinand III of Castile |
| Nickname(s) | "Mission of the Valley" |
| Founding date | September 8, 1797 |
| Founding priest(s) | Father Fermín Lasuén |
| Founding Order | Seventeenth |
| Military district | Second |
| Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) | Tataviam, Tongva Fernandeño, Gabrieleño |
| Native place name(s) | 'Achooykomenga, Pasheeknga |
| Baptisms | 2,784 |
| Marriages | 827 |
| Burials | 1,983 |
| Secularized | 1834 (Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando) |
| Returned to the Church | 1861 |
| Governing body | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles |
| Current use | Chapel-of-ease/Museum |
| Designated | 1971 |
| Delisted | 1974 |
| Reference no. | 71001076 |
| Designated | October 27, 1988 |
| Reference no. | 88002147 |
| Reference no. | #157 |
| Reference no. | 23 |
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Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on September 8, 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California. Named for Saint Ferdinand, the mission is the namesake of the nearby city of San Fernando and the San Fernando Valley.
The mission was secularized in 1834 and returned to the Catholic Church in 1861; it became a working church in 1920. Today the mission grounds function as a museum; the church is a chapel of ease of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.