Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana

Mission San Fernando was California's Seventeenth

Mission San Fernando
15151 San Fernando Mission Blvd.
Mission Hills, CA 91345

Founded September 8, 1797
by Father Fermin Lasuen
Named Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana for Saint Ferdinand III, King of Spain

Interesting Facts about Mission San Fernando

• Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana's hotel building was called the "long building"

• Mission San Fernando is often used in movies
  

Mission San Fernando Chronology

1797 - Father Lasuen founds Mission San Fernando
1804 - 1,000 neophytes
1812 - Earthquake
1819 - Most successful year at Mission San Fernando
1835 - Father Ibarra leaves
1847 - Mission San Fernando abandoned
1923 - Becomes a church again

Getting to Mission San Fernando

Mission San Fernando is north of downtown Los Angeles, in the the triangle formed by I-5, I-405, and the California 118. Exit any of the freeways and get onto Sepulveda Blvd. north. Turn right at San Fernando Mission Blvd. just past where Sepulveda crosses under the 118 Freeway. Mission San Fernando is on the left.