First Protestant Church in New Orleans

The congregation's early history runs a few years earlier than the marker says. Wikipedia dates the founding of Christ's Church to June 10, 1803, and calls it the first non-Roman Catholic church in the Louisiana Purchase. The founders voted on a denomination: 45 Episcopal, seven Presbyterian and one Methodist. Philander Chase preached at the Cabildo on November 17, 1805, the day after he arrived. The first church, octagonal brick, went up in 1816 at Canal and Bourbon; the present church at 2919 St. Charles Avenue had its cornerstone laid in 1886, and the church became a cathedral in 1891.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Cabildo — 0.3 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• Congo Square — 0.3 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.3 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.5 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.

More markers nearby

• Birthplace of Danny Barker — steps away
• Gallier House — steps away
• Old Ursuline Convent — steps away
• Lower Pontalba Building — 0.2 mi