Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles

Two bronzes a few hundred feet apart disagree about this church, and both are describing something real. The Knights of Columbus tablet, set in 1914 for what it called the centenary, says the church was built in 1814 by the Franciscan fathers. The plaza marker dates the dedication to December 1822. The cornerstone went down in 1814 and the work stalled for most of a decade in between. La Placita has been the working parish of Mexican Los Angeles ever since, which is the part neither bronze mentions.

What the plaque says

This tablet commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the erection of this church, Our Lady Queen of Angeles. Built in 1814 by the Franciscan Fathers, restored and enlarged in 1912, Right Reverend Thomas James Conaty being Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Colorado Street Bridge — 7.5 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 8.1 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.
• Santa Monica Pier — 15 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.

More markers nearby

• Los Angeles Plaza — steps away
• Pico House (Hotel) — steps away
• Merced Theatre — steps away
• Old Plaza Firehouse — steps away