Église Notre Dame Des Victoires is a Catholic church in
San Francisco, California
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. The church was founded in 1856 to serve the French Catholic immigrants during the Gold Rush. The architectural model for the church is the
Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière in
Lyon
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, France.
[ :fr:Basilique de Fourvière] 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
Belden Place is a narrow alley in the Financial District, San Francisco, California, Financial District of San Francisco, California that serves as the hub of the city's small French American community.
Location
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and regularly conducts a Sunday mass in French.
Images
San Francisco Eglise Notre-Dame-des-Victoires.jpg, Front on view
San Francisco - Notre-Dame-des-Victoires - 3.jpg, The nave
San Francisco - Notre-Dame-des-Victoires - 4.jpg, The choir
San Francisco - Notre-Dame-des-Victoires - 13.jpg, Stained glass window
San Francisco - Notre-Dame-des-Victoires - 10.jpg, Statue of the Virgin
References
External links
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires
Roman Catholic churches in San Francisco
French-American culture in San Francisco
San Francisco Designated Landmarks
California Gold Rush
1856 establishments in California
Religious organizations established in 1856
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1906
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States
Chinatown, San Francisco
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