Historic
Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Since 1971
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, also known locally as Saint Mary's Cathedral, is the principal church of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in San Francisco, California, United States. It is the mother church of the Catholic faithful in the California counties of Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo and is the metropolitan cathedral for the Ecclesiastical province of San Francisco.
San Francisco has had three cathedrals.
Why it's on the map
The third and present Saint Mary's Cathedral, completed in 1970, is located in the Cathedral Hill neighborhood.
It replaced the second Saint Mary's Cathedral, built in 1891 and destroyed by fire in 1962.
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