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Mission San Gabriel Arcángel ( Spanish: Misión de San Gabriel Arcángel) is a Californian mission and historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. It was founded by the Spanish Empire on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary ," September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become twenty-one Spanish missions in California. [10]
1656614, 2411787. Website. www .sangabrielcity .com. San Gabriel ( Spanish for "St. Gabriel") is a city located in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California. At the 2010 census, the population was 39,718. San Gabriel was founded by the Spanish in 1771, when Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was established by Saint Junípero Serra.
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the fourth in a chain of missions along the California coast, was founded in 1771 by Junípero Serra, along the San Gabriel River near present-day Montebello. The name of the mission was soon attached to the river as well as the San Gabriel Mountains, which had been previously called the Sierra Madre by the ...
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel: 7,854 baptisms total (2,459 children) 1,701 people in 1817. 5,656 deaths total (2,916 children) 1,320 people in 1834. A missionary reported that three out of four children died at the mission before reaching the age of 2. 5 Mission San Fernando Rey de España: 1,367 children baptized 1,080 people in 1819
t. e. The architecture of the California missions was influenced by several factors, those being the limitations in the construction materials that were on hand, an overall lack of skilled labor, and a desire on the part of the founding priests to emulate notable structures in their Spanish homeland. While no two mission complexes are identical ...
According to Andrew Salas, the name Kizh (pronounced Keech), sometimes spelled Kij, comes from the first construction of Mission San Gabriel in 1771. The people of the surrounding villages who were used as slave laborers to construct the mission referred to themselves as "Kizh" and the Spanish hispanicized the term as "Kichireños," as noted by ...
The San Gabriel Mission Playhouse is a historic performing arts venue located in the Mission District of the city of San Gabriel, California, United States. History. The Playhouse was constructed between 1923 and 1927 for John Steven McGroarty’s hugely successful Mission Play. Architect Arthur Burnett Benton designed the Playhouse in the ...
The Mission Play, by John S. McGroarty, was a three-hour pageant portraying the history of the California missions. Performed in San Gabriel, Ca, it was first staged in 1912 across from the San Gabriel Mission. In 1927 the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse was constructed to house the production. It was seen by over 2.5 million people.