Immaculate Conception Church (Jesuits')

Father John Cambiaso, a Jesuit, designed the first church, which was finished in 1857. In the 1920s construction of the neighboring Pere Marquette Building damaged its foundation, split the floor and left the church structurally unsafe. The Jesuits took it down in 1928, new footings went in the next year, and the cornerstone of the replacement was laid on May 16, 1929. The new church was dedicated on March 2, 1930, with many fixtures from the old one. Its cast-iron pews carry Moorish tracery, and the gold-plated altar was made by hand in Lyon, France.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.4 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 — 0.4 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.4 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 Cabildo — 0.5 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.

More markers nearby

• New Orleans Slave Depot — steps away
• 127-129 Carondelet Street — steps away
• New Orleans Massacre Of 1866 — steps away
• Canal Street Under French and Spanish Rule (1718-1803) — steps away