Spanish Missions in Arizona - Missions

Missions

• Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores founded on March 13, 1687. This was the first mission founded by Father Kino. By 1744, the mission was abandoned. The cemetery remains on the site of the Tumacácori National Historical Park in Southern Arizona.
• Mission San Cayetano de Tumacácori was founded in 1691, then moved in 1751 and renamed Mission San José de Tumacácori. The farming land around the mission was sold at auction in 1834 and the mission was abandoned by 1840. The remains are part of the Tumacácori National Historical Park in Southern Arizona.
• Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi was also established by Father Kino, one day after Tumacácori, in January 1691.
• Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama, first founded by the Jesuits in 1691. The present structure is located on a part of the Tumacácori National Historical Park in Southern Arizona.
• Mission San Xavier del Bac, located South of Tucson, active religious use, founded in 1692.

• Mission San Agustín del Tucsón, also known as San Cosme y Damián de Tucsón, was established by Father Garcés as a visita or daughter church of San Xavier del Bac in the O'odham village of Chuk-Son in 1775. This community becomes to be called Tucson in the following century.

• Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas was established in November 1756 by Jesuit Father Francisco Pauer.
• Mission Puerto de Purísima Concepción was founded in October 1780 by Father Francisco Garcés.
• Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuñer was founded in January 1781 by Father Francisco Garcés.

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• The ruins of the mission church of Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi beneath the backdrop of San Cayetano Mountain and the Sierra de Santa Rita.

• Ruins of the mission compound and church at San Cayetano de Papas.