Mission San Antonio de Pala

The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, or the ‘Pala Mission,’ was founded on June 13, 1816, as an asistencia (‘sub-mission’) to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, some twenty miles inland upstream from the mission on the San Luis Rey River. It was part of the Spanish missions, asistencias, and estancias system in Las Californias – Alta California.

Today, it is located on the Pala Indian Reservation in northern San Diego County, and is officially named Mission San Antonio de Pala.  It is the only historic mission facility still serving a Mission Indian tribe.