Bernal Heights’ St. Kevin Catholic Church celebrates 100th anniversary

There are a few, but not lots of, establishments even now around San Francisco that arrived in this article 100 years in the past way back again in 1922. The Castro Theatre just celebrated its 100th birthday final month, and Market place Street’ Golden Gate Theatre experienced its 100th birthday again in April.  

Graphic: StKevinSF.org

Now light 100 candles for a different longtime SF establishment, this 1 in Bernal Heights. St. Kevin Catholic Church is celebrating its 100th anniversary Saturday, July 16 (12 p.m. – 7 p.m.), and will be celebrating outside with an Intercontinental Meals Fest at its Cortland Avenue and Anderson Avenue place. 

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The culinary lineup for this International Food Fest reflects the cultural roots of the church’s diverse congregation. Latin American fare like tacos, enchiladas, and tamales will be served all day. Filipino rice pupusas will be served from 2-5 p.m., as will Pakistan rooster and veggie biryani. From 4-7 p.m. they’ll be serving Irish corned beef with cabbage and potatoes, Filipino adobo with lumpia, and Italian lasagna with zucchini frittata. Meals tickets will be offered on site.

There is also a Hula dancing functionality at 3:15 p.m., and Filipino dancing at 4 p.m.

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Though St. Kevin’s parish was fashioned in 1922, its parish record web site describes that in people times, its very first expert services have been to start with held in the Cortland Theater at 804 Cortland Avenue (a building that is now Mision Pentecostal Emanuel). “The current church was developed in 1925 in response to a escalating Catholic populace produced up of Irish, Italian, German and other European immigrant people,” that heritage web site claims. “Until the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the place recognised as Bernal Heights was generally farmland.”  

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Found SF has a few a lot more classic pics of St. Kevin Church through the yrs.

St. Kevin Catholic Church Centennial Celebration is Saturday, July 16, 12 Noon – 7 p.m., at 704 Cortland Avenue.