Ysleta Mission
El Paso, Texas, USA
131 S Zaragoza Rd, El Paso, TX 79907, USA
CHURCH
VISITOR INFORMATION
NO TICKET REQUIRED
The site is open to visitors Monday through Saturday during the day but closed to sightseeing on Sundays, when it is given over to worship. Restrooms are at the Tigua Cultural Center and the Mission Valley Visitors Center nearby.
Open Monday-Saturday 7 a.m.-4 p.m.; closed Sundays and holidays to visitors. Parish office Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (closed 1-2 p.m.), Tuesday from 10:30 a.m.
Peak visitation season unconfirmed. No reliable site-specific monthly attendance pattern was established.
March-April or October-November for Ysleta Mission. Confirm parish visiting arrangements and fit historical viewing around worship, weddings and other reserved uses.
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About Ysleta Mission (Corpus Christi de la Ysleta del Sur)
Founded after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, Ysleta Mission became the worship center of the Tigua community and later the wider El Paso Valley. Generations gathered there for Mass, baptisms, marriages, and funerals. Floods forced repeated rebuilding, so today's adobe church is not the original 1682 structure. A mission school educated Tigua children from 1918 to 2005. The historic mission remains in religious use for special services and ceremonies.
Rebuilt after fires and floods over the centuries, the mission continues as an active Catholic parish church in El Paso's Lower Valley.
History happened here at Ysleta Mission (Corpus Christi de la Ysleta del Sur)
Founded in 1682 by Spanish colonists and Tigua refugees fleeing the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico, Ysleta Mission is regarded as the oldest continuously active parish in Texas. It anchors the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo community, whose members trace direct descent from the mission's founders.
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EXTERNAL LINKS
National Park Service, Ysleta Spanish mission: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/travelspanishmissions/ysleta-mission-mission-corpus-christi-de-san-antonio-de-la-ysleta-sur.htm
National Park Service, Ysleta article: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/texas-ysleta-mission.htm
National Park Service, Ysleta place: https://www.nps.gov/places/ysleta-mission.htm
Texas Historical Commission, Ysleta marker: https://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/2072001360
Ysleta Mission, history: https://ysletamission.org/about/