Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, San Francisco

Église Notre Dame Des Victoires is a Roman Catholic church in San Francisco, California. The church was founded in 1856 for the French Catholic Gold Rush immigrants.[1] The architectural model for the church is the Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon, France[2]. It was rebuilt after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. A school, École Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, was opened in 1924 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, California.

References

  1. ^ http://www.ndvsf.org/about/history.html
  2. ^ http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilique_de_Fourvi%C3%A8re

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