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Saints Peter and Paul Church, San Francisco
Since 1924
Saints Peter and Paul Church (Italian: Ss. Pietro e Paolo, Chinese: 聖伯多禄圣保禄教堂) is a Catholic church in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. Located at 666 Filbert Street, it is directly across from Washington Square and is administered by the Salesians of Don Bosco.
Why it's on the map
During 1926–27, the church was the target of radical anti-Catholic anarchists, who, in the name of propaganda of the deed, instituted five separate bombing attacks against the building in the space of one year.
On March 6, 1927, officers of the San Francisco Police Department shot and killed one man and seriously wounded another, Celsten Eklund, a radical anarchist and local soapbox orator, as the two men attempted to light the fuse of a large dynamite bomb in front of the church.
The first Saints Peter and Paul Church, built in 1884 on the corner of Filbert Street and Grant Avenue, was destroyed by the Great Quake of 1906.
Construction on the current building was completed in 1924.
Source: Wikipedia / Wikidata
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