About Our Lady of Zapopan · North Hollywood, California
The Mission of Our Lady of Zapopan (Misión de Nuestra Señora de Zapopan) is a Spanish-language Catholic mission chapel located at 7824 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, California. It is operated as a parochial mission of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish in nearby Sun Valley, within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Los Angeles (Deanery 16, Our Lady of the Angels Pastoral Region). The mission serves the local Spanish-speaking Catholic faithful of the San Fernando Valley with weekly Sunday Masses in Spanish, a Wednesday evening Spanish Mass, and confessions on Wednesday afternoons, providing an intimate devotional home for the devotion to the Virgin of Zapopan (La Virgen de Zapopan) far from her famous Mexican shrine in Jalisco.
- Patron
- Our Lady of Zapopan (La Virgen de Zapopan / Our Lady of Expectation of Zapopan)
- Diocese
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Why belong here
Our Lady of Zapopan is the go-to Spanish-speaking Catholic mission in the Sun Valley / North Hollywood area for Latin Catholics who want the entire liturgy, music, preaching, and Confession in Spanish. With three weekly Spanish Masses (two Sunday morning Masses and a Wednesday evening Mass) and a regular Wednesday afternoon Confession hour, it offers a focused devotional gathering centered on the Virgin of Zapopan — a beloved Mexican Marian figure. Because it is run by Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish, families registered there can reach the parish school, faith formation, and the broad bilingual ministries of the mother parish while keeping their own neighborhood chapel as their spiritual home.
Mass times at Our Lady of Zapopan
Weekly Mass schedule
Confession times
- Wednesday 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
About the Mission of Our Lady of Zapopan
The Mission of Our Lady of Zapopan, also known simply as 'Misión de Zapopan,' is a parochial mission chapel of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Located at 7824 Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, California (91605), the mission serves the local Spanish-speaking Catholic community of the San Fernando Valley. It is dedicated to the Virgin of Zapopan, a Marian figure of Mexican origin venerated from the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan in Jalisco, Mexico. The chapel is administered from the mother parish at 7800 Vineland Avenue, Sun Valley, CA 91352, and is listed in the official Catholic Directory of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles among the seventeen parochial missions and centers of the archdiocese.
Devotion to the Virgin of Zapopan
The mission's name honors the Virgen de Zapopan, also known as La Generala or Our Lady of Expectation, whose original statue in Mexico is credited with miracles since the 16th century. Mexican and Mexican-American Catholics in the San Fernando Valley have long venerated this Marian image, and the mission provides a dedicated place to keep this devotional tradition alive. The Virgin of Zapopan is especially celebrated in Mexico on October 12, the date of her annual return trip between her basilica in Zapopan and the Cathedral of Guadalajara.
Relationship to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish
Zapopan Mission is administered as a dependent mission of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish. Parishioners can register and receive all sacramental preparation through the mother parish; the parish school, faith formation programs, and bilingual ministries of the main church on Vineland Avenue are all accessible to families who worship at the Zapopan mission chapel.
Visiting and Contact Information
The mission is open for the scheduled Spanish Masses and for the Wednesday Confession hour. For sacramental needs, registration, or to speak with a priest, the easiest point of contact is the main parish office in Sun Valley.
- Address: 7824 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91605
- Phone: (818) 503-8920
- Email: [email protected]
- Office hours at mission: Tuesday–Friday 4:00–7:00 PM
- Main parish address: 7800 Vineland Ave., Sun Valley, CA 91352
- Main parish phone: (818) 765-3350
Location and How to Get There
The mission sits on Lankershim Boulevard in the North Hollywood / Sun Valley area of the eastern San Fernando Valley. Worshippers traveling from other parts of the Valley typically drive, with street parking on Lankershim and the surrounding blocks.
- Neighborhood: North Hollywood / Sun Valley
- Diocese: Archdiocese of Los Angeles
- Pastoral Region: Our Lady of the Angels
- Deanery: 16