St. Dominic's Catholic Church (San Francisco)

St. Dominic's Catholic Church is a historic parish in the Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California, located at the corner of Bush and Steiner Streets.

In addition to a large parish membership, St. Dominic's Church has one of the most active young adults groups in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The first Dominican priory in San Francisco was established in 1863 at Van Ness and Broadway to provide a center for the friars who were given charge of the new parish of Saint Brigid.

During the months following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, parishioners gathered for Mass outdoors until, in October 1906, a wooden church opened on the Pierce Street side of the block.

The Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 destroyed another of the primary French features: the beautiful octagonal "lantern" of Saint Dominic's tower.

By June 1991, sufficient funds had been raised to begin the construction of nine flying buttresses that rise from concrete piers deep underground and soar to connect at a ring beam that girdles the church at the roof line.

Construction was completed in July 1992, and Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco dedicated the new Saint Dominic's Church on August 1, 1992.