Notre-Dame-des-Victoires | |
Native Name: | Église Notre Dame Des Victoires |
Map Type: | San Francisco County#California#USA |
Location: | 566 Bush St, San Francisco, California |
Coordinates: | 37.7907°N -122.4065°W |
Religious Affiliation: | Roman Catholic |
Country: | United States |
Founded By: | 1856 |
Designation1: | SFDL |
Designation1 Number: | 137 |
Designation1 Date: | 1981[1] |
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.
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.