Mission Santa Inés in Solvang will receive a $500,000 federal grant to conduct seismic retrofit work. The California Missions Foundation secured two grants totaling more than $1.2 million for projects ...

This was a smallish mission, with a population that never reached 1,000. The church building dates to 1817. The largest Native American uprising of the mission era was touched off here in 1824 when a ...

Sep 2, 2019 Sep 2, 2019 Updated Nov 16, 2022 September 2019 marked the 215th year anniversary of the Old Mission Santa Inés, established in September of 1804. The mission was officially named Mission ...

Members of the Conference of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul at Old Mission Santa Inés parish and the mission's pastor, Father Matthew Elshoff, were honored by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Los ...

Solvang’s Mission Santa Inés will undergo seismic retrofitting in the coming months as a preventative measure should a major earthquake hit the region.

Mission Santa Ines Virgen y Martir in Solvang was a smallish mission, with a population that never reached 1,000. The church building dates to 1817. The museum includes a collection of vestments from ...

Amid the red tile roofs, white-washed adobe walls, arched colonnades, and towering campanile of Mission Santa Inés, there lies a lush garden set in the shape of a Celtic cross, the tombstone of a ...

July 4, 1817: The new Mission Santa Ines (the original was destroyed in an earthquake Dec. 21, 1812) was dedicated. July 2, 1873: Martin Luther Tunnell filed an application for a homestead on 160 ...

A demand to remove the St. Junípero Serra statue at Mission Santa Inés saw opposing groups shouting at each other in sweltering heat while members of a third group steadily recited the rosary Saturday ...