Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, San Francisco

Church

Église Notre Dame Des Victoires is a Roman Catholic church in San Francisco, California. The church was founded in 1856 to serve the French Catholic immigrants during the Gold Rush.[1] The architectural model for the church is the Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon, France.[2] In 1887, Pope Leo XIII signed the decree placing Eglise Notre Dame des Victoires under the charge of the Marists and giving it the designation of being a French National Church.

The church building was rededicated in 1915 after rising from the ashes of the 1906 Earthquake and Great Fire. In 1984, the church was designated as a historical landmark.

The church remains an important center of San Francisco's French community: it is located adjacent to the city's "French Quarter" centered on Belden Place and regularly conducts a Sunday mass in French.

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References

  1. http://www.ndvsf.org/about/history.html
  2. fr:Basilique de Fourvière
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Coordinates: 37°47′27″N 122°24′23″W / 37.7907°N 122.4065°W / 37.7907; -122.4065


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