Christ Church Cathedral

This congregation was founded in 1805 as the first Episcopal church established in the former Spanish colony after the Louisiana Purchase. Its first service was held in the Cabildo on November 17, 1805. An octagonal Gothic church designed by Henry S. Latrobe was erected at Canal and Bourbon Streets in 1815, and it was replaced by a Greek Revival church designed by Gallier and Dankin in 1835. A third church in the Gothic style was erected at Canal and Dauphine Streets in 1846 and served until 1885, with Thomas K. Wharton as architect and James Gallier as builder. The present church was built in 1886, with Lawrence B. Valk of New York as architect and B.M. Harrod of New Orleans as supervising architect. The Right Reverend Leonidas Polk, D.D., the first bishop of Louisiana and a general in the C.S.A. who died in battle in the War Between the States, is entombed in the south choir aisle of this building.

New Orleans, Louisiana · United States