Église Notre Dame Des Victoires is a Catholic church in San Francisco, California. The church was founded in 1856 to serve the French Catholic immigrants during the Gold Rush.[2] The architectural model for the church is the Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon, France.[3] 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.
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires | |
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Église Notre Dame Des Victoires | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
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Country | United States |
Location in San Francisco | |
Geographic coordinates | 37°47′27″N 122°24′23″W / 37.7907°N 122.4065°W |
Architecture | |
Founder | 1856 |
Designated | 1981[1] |
Reference no. | 137 |
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.
Images
- Front on view
- The nave
- The choir
- Stained glass window
- Statue of the Virgin
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