Mission San Francisco de la Espada
Mission San Francisco de la Espada is a Roman Rite Catholic mission established in 1690 by Spain and relocated in 1731 to present-day San Antonio, Texas, in what was then known as northern New Spain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Roman Catholic
- Description: building in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
- Also known as: “41BX4”, “Mission Espada”, and “Mission Saint Francis of the Sword”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Stinson Municipal Airport.
Stinson Municipal Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Stinson Municipal Airport is seven miles south of downtown San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a reliever airport. Stinson Municipal Airport is situated 2 miles northwest of Mission San Francisco de la Espada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brooks City-Base and Losoya.
Brooks City-Base
Neighborhood
Brooks is a mixed-use development that was founded on the former Brooks Air Force Base when the United States Air Force closed the facility in 2002. Following the 1995 BRAC, when Brooks AFB was removed from the Base Realignment and Closure list, city, state… Brooks City-Base is situated 2 miles north of Mission San Francisco de la Espada.
Losoya
Hamlet
Losoya is an unincorporated community in Bexar County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 322 in 2000. It is a part of the San Antonio–New Braunfels metropolitan area. Losoya is situated 6 miles south of Mission San Francisco de la Espada.
Mission San Francisco de la Espada
- Categories: mission station, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Bexar, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
29.3182° or 29° 19′ 6″ northLongitude
-98.45118° or 98° 27′ 4″ westElevation
535 feet (163 metres)Open location code
76X38G9X+7GOpenStreetMap ID
node 356740636OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=roman_catholicGeoNames ID
4711773Wikidata ID
Q2393728
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Mission San Francisco de la Espada” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “劍之聖弗朗西斯科傳教站”
- Dutch: “Mission San Francisco de la Espada”
- French: “mission San Francisco de la Espada”
- French: “Mission San Francisco de la Espada”
- French: “Mission San Francisco de los Tejas”
- Italian: “Missione Espada”
- Italian: “Missione San Francisco de la Espada”
- Italian: “San Francisco de la Espada”
- Italian: “San Francisco de los Tejas”
- Persian: “میسیون اسپادا”
- Portuguese: “Missão San Francisco de la Espada”
- Spanish: “Misión de San Francisco de la Espada”
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