A mission station is a name for the location of missionary practice, often associated with the displacement of local people during the process of colonisation.
Several cities and towns are named Mission, including:
The 1986 film The Mission has a Christian mission as its setting.
Analogously to the religious use, some businesses see and label their marketing practices as "missions". Other businesses may simply subscribe to mission statements as credos.
In military parlance, "operations" are sometimes termed "missions".
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The Inner Mission, often called "The Mission" or "The Heart of the Mission" (La Misión or El Corazón de la Misión in Spanish) is a neighborhood in the Mission District of San Francisco.
As its name suggests, the principal thoroughfare of the Inner Mission of the Mission District of San Francisco is Mission Street.
Its borders are U.S. Route 101 to the east which forms the boundary between the Inner Mission and its eastern neighbor, Potrero Hill, while Valencia Street separates the neigborhoods from Mission Dolores, Eureka Valley "The Castro" and Noe Valley to the west.
The official literature calls Mission Santa Barbara "Queen of the Missions for its graceful beauty." Founded on December 4th, 1786, it was the tenth of 21 Franciscan missions in California.
Mission Santa Barbara was the tenth of the California missions to be founded by the Spanish Franciscans.
The water was led to the Mission by an aqueduct, the water flowing by gravity.
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