San Gabriel Mission, campanile from Sherwood Park

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This view of the San Gabriel Mission campanile is taken from an arched doorway across Mission Drive in Sherwood Park (today known as Plaza Park). Mission Drive, which used to parallel the western facade of the Mission church, has been reconfigured around the park, so this part of the street and arched park building are now gone.Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, also known as the San Gabriel Mission, is a former Roman Catholic mission and current historic landmark it was the fourth of 21 California missions to be founded. The founding date was September 8, 1771, and Padres Pedro Benito Cambon and Angel Fernandes de la Somera were the founding priests. The mission was built from 1791 to 1805 out of cut stone, brick, and mortar, and is the oldest structure of its kind south of Monterey, Ca. It was designed by Father Antonio Cruzado, and is often referred to as the "Godmother of the Pueblo of Los Angeles".