Baptismal Font - Immaculate Conception church - New Orleans, LA
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Immaculate Conception church, locally known as Jesuit church, is a Roman Catholic church located at 130 Baronne Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2020
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Two Immaculate Conception churches, nearly identical to each other, were built on the same site over time. The first church was designed by Fr. John Cambiaso, S.J., and completed in 1857. In the late 1920s, it suffered foundation damage due to the construction of the Pere Marquette building. The church's floor split in half. The building was disassembled in 1928. New footings at the same site were laid in 1929 with the cornerstone laid on 16 May 1929. The new church building, incorporating many fixtures from the older church, was dedicated on 2 March 1930.
The Immaculate Conception church was built and designed in the Neo-Venetian Gothic style of Gothic Revival architecture, with Moorish Revival and Byzantine Revival elements.
The stone baptismal font has two basins superimposed on a base, all decorated with sculptures of angels, doves and a beautiful mosaic. It is located in the central ally near the entrance to the church and is accompanied by a baptism candle. The three-leaf clover represents the Trinity, the butterfly represents a new life and the perpetual flame represents eternal life with God.
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