On Oct. 9, 1776, seven months after establishing the city of San Francisco by Spanish colonists, Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga and Francisco Palou found the Mission San Francisco de Asis.

Mission San Francisco de Asís, or Mission Dolores, is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the seventh religious settlement established as part of the California chain of missions ...

Mission San Francisco de Asis was founded in June 1776 near an Indian village on a lagoon the Spanish called Nuestra Senora de los Dolores -- Our Lady of Sorrows.

The nominal Mission of the Mission was San Francisco de Asis, founded by Spanish Franciscans in 1776, but Yelamu Indians inhabited the area around Mission Creek for thousands of years before that.

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San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores), San Francisco. 6th mission. 1776. Explore all of California’s 21 famed missions >> The National Park Service calls this the oldest intact building in ...

A simple white adobe church in the Mission is the oldest intact building in San Francisco. Misión San Francisco de Asís, better known as Mission Dolores, traces its roots all the way back to ...

Founded in 1776 near the village of Chutchui by Franciscan Friar Francisco Palou, Mission San Francisco de Asis, popularly known as Mission Dolores, has always had a central place in the civic and ...