Mission San Francisco de Asís, or Mission Dolores, is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the seventh religious settlement established as part of the California chain of missions.

Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga and Francisco Palou found the Mission San Francisco de Asis. Currently the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco, the mission was the sixth religious ...

The nominal Mission of the Mission was San Francisco de Asis, founded by Spanish Franciscans in 1776, but Yelamu Indians inhabited the area around Mission Creek for thousands of years before that.