Historic Importance of Religion in the City

• According to The People and Culture of New Orleans, New Orleans served as a distinctive cultural gateway to North America, where peoples from Europe and Africa initially intertwined their lives and customs with those of the native inhabitants of the New World (Hirsch & Logsdon).

    

•      New Orleans’ Carnival traditions have centuries old roots in French and Spanish

• ·       Catholicism, as well as African and Native American traditions. 

•       New Orleans’ became a large place for selling and trading slaves. It also became a place for moving slaves as well.

• ·       New Orleans was a place of where multiple immigrants came and brought their religion into the town. The town became a place where it was acceptable for any religion to be practiced. There were people from Spain, Cuba, France, Germany and many other places coming and living in this community. 
•       The whole city is full of history and on every corner there was a museum or a building that had a story to tell.

Information Provided By: Morgan Estes

References:

  

·      History.com Staff. (2010). New Orleans. Retrieved January 01, 2018, from http://www.history.com/topics/new-orleans

·      Hirsch, A. R., & Logsdon, J. (n.d.). The People And Culture of New OrleansBy Arnold R. Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon Department of History, University of New Orleans. Retrieved January 01, 2018, from http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/history/people.html