San Diego De Alcala

San Diego de Alcalá, the Mother of the Alta California Missions, was founded July 16, 1769 by Blessed Junípero Serra. The mission overlooks San Diego's historic Old Town.

The mission church is 135 feet long, 35 feet wide, 29 feet high, built of adobe, and has a Tile roof. Its style is simple, setting the standard for the "mission style." The front facade is plain, decorated only with a few flat ornamental columns at the side and above the entrance. Wing-like buttresses (supports), added in 1931 to strengthen it, extend from each side of the entrance. Once an arched corridor crossed the front of the original church, but has not been rebuilt. The walls are three feet thick, roughly plastered, with small windows near the ceiling. The floor of the church is made with very old adobe bricks, the benches are solid knotty wood, everything is in earthy golden colors with crimson here and there.

Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá is a very well preserved example of colonial architecture; one that fully deserves a visit when exploring southern California.

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St. Francis Chapel at Mission San Diego de Alcalá

San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the great California Missions, marks the birthplace of Christianity in the far West. It is California's first church. The mission was named for St. Didacus of Alcalá, Spain.

The architecture of the Saint Francis Chapel is interesting and the interior is beautiful, yet simple. The main church is 150' long, 35' wide and 29' high. Its long and narrow layout is a consequence of the trees available to use for its beams (the doorway beams are original, dating back to the 1813 reconstruction). The original windows were built high to retard attack, covered with treated rawhides instead of glass.

This remarkable and significant historical shrine provides an understanding and appreciation of the beginning of Christianity in this corner of the world, so remote from the Mother Country of Spain and yet so similar.

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