Baptismal Font - St. Joseph Cathedral - San Diego, CA
Posted by: 
denben
N 32° 43.271 W 117° 09.715
11S E 484826 N 3620389
St. Joseph Cathedral is located at 1535 Third Avenue in San Diego, California.
Waymark Code: WM10DVW
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/20/2019
Views: 1
This beautiful baptismal font with an octagonal basin can not be missed. It is in front of us, in the middle aisle, as we enter the San Diego's St. Joseph Cathedral.
The parish was founded in 1874 and the first sanctuary was a frame building at Third and Beech built in 1875 under the leadership of Father Antonio Ubach on land donated by Alonzo Horton. Adjacent to the church was an adobe house where Ubach lived. The church was dedicated the same year by Bishop Francis Mora. In 1894, the parish completed and dedicated a much larger brick church.
St. Joseph became a cathedral in 1936, when the Holy See established the Diocese of San Diego from part of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The cathedral is built on the site of the earlier churches and was dedicated in 1941. St. Joseph underwent restoration work in 2011 which included repainting and restoring exterior wood and concrete. Earlier work upgraded restrooms and accessibility to the facility while additional work is planned when funding is in place.
The interior of the cathedral is beautiful with its vaulted wooden ceilings, statues and stained glass windows.
Source: Wikipedia (
visit link)