St. Louis Cathedral is a place of religious worship and New Orleans’s most recognizable building. Built on the site of New Orleans’s earliest church, it is one of the tallest buildings in the French Quarter. Parts of the Catholic cathedral are more than 225 years old, but most of the current building was built around 1850. The cathedral faces Jackson Square and the Mississippi River. Kings, emperors, presidents, a pope, and other important leaders have all visited St. Louis Cathedral.
Author
Ann Masson
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Entry Published
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June 27, 2023 |
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Entry Last Updated
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June 29, 2023 |
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ca. 1727–present |
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Greater New Orleans |
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Bourbon Era, Civil War Period, Contemporary Period, Late-20th Century, Long Era, Reconstruction Period |
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Grade Level
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1st Grade: Life in the Great State of Louisiana |
Louisiana K–12
Student Standard(s) for Social Studies
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1.8 d. 1.8 Identify examples of Louisiana culture, including:
d. Architecture: St. Louis Cathedral, the Cabildo, State Capitol, Louisiana Superdome, Strand Theater, Sports Hall of Fame, National WWII Museum
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The text of "St. Louis Cathedral" is adapted from the following 64 Parishes encyclopedia entry or entries:
"St. Louis Cathedral" by Ann Masson
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Credit
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This material was created through a partnership between the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisiana Department of Education with funding provided by the Louisiana Department of Education and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA). |
