Saint Louis Cemetery
Saint Louis Cemetery is the name of three Catholic cemeteries in New Orleans, Louisiana. Most of the graves are above-ground vaults constructed in the 18th and 19th centuries.- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, consisting of three discontiguous parcels
- Also known as: “Saint Louis Cemetery Number One” and “St. Louis Cemetery”
- Address: 425 Basin Street
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Congo Square and Saenger Theatre.
Congo Square
Park
Photo: Mr. Littlehand, CC BY 2.0.
Congo Square is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street north of the French Quarter. Congo Square is situated 1,100 feet northeast of Saint Louis Cemetery.
Saenger Theatre
Theater building
Saenger Theatre is an atmospheric theatre in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Once the flagship of Julian and Abe Saenger's theatre empire, today it is one of only a handful of Saenger movie palaces that remain. Saenger Theatre is situated 1,100 feet south of Saint Louis Cemetery.
Louis Armstrong Park
Park
Photo: Jason Riedy, CC BY 2.0.
Louis Armstrong Park is a 32-acre park located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Storyville and New Orleans.
Storyville
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Storyville was the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 to 1917. It was established by municipal ordinance under the New Orleans City Council, to regulate prostitution.
New Orleans
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Way down yonder in New Orleans, you'll find the roots of jazz and a blossoming culture that is unlike anything else on Earth. Here, the laid-back atmosphere of the riverfront South has mixed with French sophistication, Spanish style, and African-American energy to create something greater than the sum of its parts.
French Quarter
Photo: Lars Plougmann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The French Quarter is the oldest and most famous and visited neighborhood of New Orleans. It was laid out in French and Spanish colonial times in the 18th century.
Saint Louis Cemetery
- Categories: historic site and burial
- Location: City of New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.95941° or 29° 57′ 34″ northLongitude
-90.0715° or 90° 4′ 17″ westInception
1789Operator
New Orleans Catholic CemeteriesOpen location code
76XFXW5H+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
way 27936018OpenStreetMap feature
historic=cemeteryOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q167251
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Spanish—“Saint Louis Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Hřbitov v Saint Louis”
- French: “cimetière Saint-Louis de La Nouvelle-Orléans”
- French: “Cimetière Saint-Louis de La Nouvelle-Orléans”
- German: “Saint Louis Cemetery”
- Hausa: “Kabari na Saint Louis”
- Italian: “Saint Louis Cemetery”
- Japanese: “セントルイス墓地”
- Persian: “گورستان سنت لوئیس”
- Portuguese: “Cemitério de Saint Louis”
- Portuguese: “Saint Louis Cemetery”
- Portuguese: “St. Louis Cemetery”
- Russian: “кладбище Сен-Луи”
- Slovenian: “Saint Louis Cemetery”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de San Luis”
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