Mission Santa Ines

Mission Santa Ines was California's Nineteenth

Mission Santa Ines
1760 Mission Drive
Solvang, CA

Founded September 17, 1804
by Father Estevan Tapis
Named Mission Santa Ines, for Saint Agnes

Interesting Facts about Mission Santa Ines

• Mission Santa Ines is the last mission founded in Southern California

• Mission Santa Ines was the home of California's first seminary college

• During the 1824 revolt, two Indians were killed at Mission Santa Ines
  

Mission Santa Ines Chronology

1804 - Father Tapis founds Mission Santa Ines
1811 - Quadrangle and church completed
1812 - Earthquake
1817 - New church completed, 920 Indians
1834 - Mission Santa Ines secularized
1843 - Mission Santa Ines returned to church

Getting to Mission Santa Ines

Mission Santa Ines is located 45 miles north of Santa Barbara and 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles. From US 101, take the Solvang exit at Buellton (SR 246) and go east 4 miles to Mission Santa Inés, just beyond downtown Solvang.