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Saint Ignatius Church

Since 1914

Saint Ignatius Church is on the campus of the University of San Francisco (USF) in San Francisco, California. The church serves a parish of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and is the university's chapels. Saint Ignatius Church is staffed by priests of the Society of Jesus and is dedicated to the Society's founder, Ignatius of Loyola.

Why it's on the map

However, the third church and college only lasted 25 years as both were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.

After the earthquake and fire, the college was hastily re-built on Hayes Street, a few miles west of old Van Ness Avenue site.

In 2020, the former gallery became home to the Parish's In All Things Bookstore, a ministry of St. Ignatius Parish.

The incandescent lighting, much of it burned out, is being replaced by a subtle and environmentally friendly LED design, with the lights capable of changing colors.

Its history runs parallel to that of USF and St. Ignatius College Prep: the very first Saint Ignatius was built in 1855 as a small wood-frame church beside a schoolhouse that became Saint Ignatius Academy, USF's predecessor.

However, the church itself was eventually re-built in 1912 two blocks north on Fulton Street at the corner of Parker Ave., and the fifth Saint Ignatius Church was dedicated in 1914.

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