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La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles ("The Church of Our Lady Queen of the Angels"}, today known as the "Old Plaza Church," or La Placita, was originally founded in 1781 as part of the California mission chain. However, the new governor of California, Felip de Neve, subsequently recommended to the viceroy in Mexico that the site be developed into a small agricultural pueblo (town), so the facility was never granted mission status.
The current chapel building, a replica of the original adobe structure) was dedicated on December 8, 1822 (the "Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin") and for years served as the sole Roman Catholic church in the pueblo; it was given parochial status in 1826 and assumed the ecclesiastical welfare of the city and its environs. Today, the "Old Plaza Church in Los Angeles" is preserved in a district known as Olvera Street, and continues to function as a parish church, serving an almost exclusively Spanish-speaking congregation as it did in the beginning.
