The Minor Basilica Of The Immaculate Conception is located in Natchitoches, Louisiana. It also acts as a parish church in the Diocese of Alexandria. The church building was once the cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Natchitoches.

As the Church of the Immaculate Conception it is part of the Natchitoches Historic District and is registered on the National Register of Historic Places.

After the parish was founded in 1728, the first church was built within the Fort St. Jean Baptiste sometime before 1733.

A second church was named St. John the Baptist and was built by 1738 between the fort and what is now the American Cemetery. A third church, made of stone, was built in 1771 at the same location. The fourth church was constructed fourteen years later at what is now Front and Church Streets. A fifth church made of brick was 50 feet wide and 100 feet long probably at the site of what is now Church Street Inn. It was destroyed in 1838 in the Natchitoches fire. The sixth church was completed in 1839 and in 1853 became the first cathedral for the Diocese of Natchitoches.The present church was completed by 1905 and was transferred from Natchitoches to Alexandria. It was elevated to a Minor Basilica in 2009

145 Church St, Natchitoches, LA 71457, Phone: 318-352-3422

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