A weekend fire that gutted the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel church started in the choir loft on the second floor, then spread to the ceiling and the wooden roof, authorities said Monday.

Alecia Ballin prays outside the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel Sunday, July 12, 2020, after a fire destroyed much of the 249-year-old mission early Saturday. (Photo by David Rosenfeld/SCNG) But, he ...

Update: Archbishop José H. Gomez will celebrate Mass at the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel on Sunday, July 12 at 11 a.m. in the Mission’s Chapel of the Annunciation. A raging fire tore through ...

The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel campus will fully reopen to the public on Saturday for the first time in three years due to the pandemic and an arson fire in July 2020. The reopening coincides ...

Gomez was awakened before dawn to hear heartbreaking news. Mission San Gabriel Arcángel — known as the birthplace of Christianity in Los Angeles, and home to L.A.’s first generation of Roman ...

on Sunday, July12. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) With the roof of the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel still charred and partially collapsed after a fire desecrated the 249 ...

Alecia Ballin prays outside the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel Sunday, July 12, 2020, after a fire destroyed much of the 249-year-old mission early Saturday. (Photo by David Rosenfeld/SCNG ...

Three years after Mission San Gabriel was nearly destroyed by fire, the more than 250-year-old church is set to reopen on July 1, capping a multimillion-dollar drive to restore the landmark after ...

SAN GABRIEL, Calif. (KABC) -- Almost three years after being nearly destroyed by a devastating arson, the newly restored Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is set to reopen to the public. The reopening ...