Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal)

The congregation began with a vote. In June 1803, 53 Protestants met in a Catholic city to form a church and chose the Episcopal Church over the Presbyterian and Methodist options by 45 votes to 7 and 1. When the congregation moved to Canal and Dauphine in 1846, Judah Touro bought its earlier building, which became a synagogue. Lawrence B. Valk of New York designed the present Neo-Gothic church, its cornerstone laid on June 10, 1886. The chapel by Thomas Sully, added in 1889, was consecrated first because it was debt-free.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — steps away
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 2.2 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 2.2 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 2.2 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• Garden District — steps away
• Commander's Palace — 0.2 mi
• Freret's Folly — 0.3 mi
• The New Zion Baptist Church — 0.5 mi