Prayerbook Cross
monument in San Francisco, California
Facts
13 properties- Instance of
- monument
- Inception
- 1894[9]
- Country
- United States[3]
- Location
- Golden Gate Park[6]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 37.772°, -122.481°[10]
- Commemorates
- Francis Drake[8]
- Described by source
- Golden Gate Park At Your Feet (1978 edition)[11]
- Designed by
- Ernest Coxhead[7]
- Funder
- George William Childs
- Inscription
- First christian service in the English tongue on our coast, First use of the book of common prayer in our country, One of the first recorded missionary prayers on our continent, Soli deo sit semper gloria, Presented to golden gate park at the opening of the mid-winter fair january 1 ad 1894 as, A memorial of the service held on the shore of drakes bay about, Saint john baptist’s day, june 24 anno domini 1579 by francis fletcher, Priest of the church of england, chaplain of sir francis drake, chronicler of the service[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- San Francisco[2]
- Named after
- Francis Drake[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Drake’s Cross
en Prayerbook Cross
en Prayer Book Cross
en Sir Francis Drake Cross
🔖 Identifiers · 7
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Prayerbook Cross.jpg ↗
- Atlas Obscura place ID
- prayer-book-cross-golden-gate-park
- Described at URL
- www.nytimes.com
- GeoNames ID
- 5384811
- Google Knowledge Graph ID
- /g/1thf8stp
- OpenStreetMap node ID
- 1736642828
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
95 m
2026-09-26
US
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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Summary
Prayerbook Cross is a monument[1].