Mission San Gabriel

Mission San Gabriel was California's Fourth

Mission San Gabriel
428 South Mission Drive
San Gabriel CA

Founded September 8, 1771
by Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera
Named Mission San Gabriel for the Arcangel Gabriel

Interesting Facts about Mission San Gabriel

• Mission San Gabriel is the only one with Moorish architecture

• Settlers from Mission San Gabriel founded the city of Los Angeles

• Mission San Gabriel has no bell tower

• Mission San Gabriel is the oldest structure of its kind south of Monterey

Mission San Gabriel Chronology

1771 - Mission San Gabriel founded
1775 - Moved to a new site
1779 - Building began
1781 - Party leaves Mission San Gabriel to found Los Angeles
1805 - Building completed
1812 - Earthquake
1835 - Secularization
1846 - Mission San Gabriel sold by Pio Pico
1908 - Claretan fathers rebuild Mission San Gabriel
1987 - Mission San Gabriel damaged in earthquake

Getting to Mission San Gabriel

Mission San Gabriel is located north of I-10, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. Exit I-10 at New Ave. and merge onto north New Ave. New Avenue becomes Ramona Street. Keep going for about 1.7 miles from the freeway, and turn left onto S. Mission Drive. Mission San Gabriel is on the left.