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Mortuary Chapel
An unfounded fear of yellow-fever contagion led the city to forbid funerals for fever victims at the St Louis Cathedral. Built in 1826 near St Louis Cemetery No 1, the Mortuary Chapel offered hasty services to victims, as its bell tolled constantly during epidemics. In 1931, it was renamed Our Lady of Guadeloupe Church.
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St Augustine's Church
The 1824 St Augustine's Church (504-525-5934; 1210 Governor Nicholls St) is the second-oldest African American Catholic church in the US; many jazz funeral processions originate here.
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Ursuline Convent
In 1728, 12 Ursuline nuns arrived in New Orleans to care for the French garrison's 'miserable little hospital' and to educate the young girls of the colony. Between 1745 and 1752, the French colonial army built the Ursuline Convent, now the oldest structure in the Mississippi River Valley and the only remaining French building in the Quarter. Since Katrina, the convent has discontinued tours so you must peek at it through the gate, but tours may resume.
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