Mission Santa Inés
Mission Santa Inés in 2005
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 Location of Mission Santa Inés in California
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| Location | 1760 Mission Drive, Solvang, California 93464 |
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| Coordinates | 34°35′40″N 120°08′13″W / 34.59444°N 120.13694°WCoordinates: 34°35′40″N 120°08′13″W / 34.59444°N 120.13694°W |
| Name as founded | La Misión de Nuestra Santa Inés, Virgen y Mártir |
| English translation | The Mission of Saint Agnes of Rome, Virgin and Martyr |
| Patron | Saint Agnes of Rome |
| Nickname(s) | "Hidden Gem of the Missions" |
| Founding date | September 17, 1804 |
| Founding priest(s) | Father Presidente Pedro Estévan Tápis |
| Founding Order | Nineteenth |
| Military district | Second |
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Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) |
Chumash Inéseño |
| Native place name(s) | 'Alahulapu |
| Baptisms | 1,348 |
| Marriages | 400 |
| Burials | 1,227 |
| Secularized | 1836 |
| Returned to the Church | 1862 |
| Governing body | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles |
| Current use | Parish Church / Museum |
| Reference no. | 99000630 |
| Designated | 1999 |
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Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynez) is a Spanish mission in the present-day city of Solvang, California, and named after St. Agnes of Rome. Founded on September 17, 1804 by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding at those two missions and to serve the Indians living east of the Coast Range.
The mission was home to the first learning institution in Alta California and today serves as a museum as well as a parish church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Most of the original church was destroyed on December 21, 1812 in an earthquake centered near Santa Barbara that damaged or destroyed most of California's missions. The quake also severely damaged other mission buildings, but the complex was not abandoned. A new church, constructed with 5-to-6-foot-thick (1.5 to 1.8 m) walls and great pine beams brought from nearby Figueroa Mountain, was dedicated on July 4, 1817. A water-powered grist mill was built in 1819, about half a mile from the church. In 1821, a fulling mill was added, designed by newly arrived American immigrant Joseph John Chapman.
On February 21, 1824 a soldier beat a young Chumash Indian and sparked the Chumash Revolt of 1824. Some of the Indians went to get the Indians from Missions Santa Barbara and La Purísima to help in the fight. When the fighting was over, the Indians themselves put out the fire that had started at the mission. Many of the Indians left to join other tribes in the mountains; only a few Indians remained at the mission.
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