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St. Louis Cathedral

This place of religious worship is one of New Orleans’s best-known buildings.

by Ann Masson

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St. Louis Cathedral

The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

The front of St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, 2023. Melissa Carrier, photographer.

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

Additional Data

Entry Published June 27, 2023
Entry Last Updated June 29, 2023
Coverage ca. 1727–present
Category
Topics
Regions Greater New Orleans
Time Periods Bourbon Era, Civil War Period, Contemporary Period, Late-20th Century, Long Era, Reconstruction Period
Index letter S
Louisiana K­–12
Student Standard(s) for Social Studies 		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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"St. Louis Cathedral" by Ann Masson
Credit 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).