St Marks Cathedral 1111 O’Farrell Street Fillmore/Japantown/Western Addition  Germans starting flocking to the San Francisco Bay area during the gold rush of 1849 . The dedication of the present church building in 1895 marked three decades of effort by German immigrants to establish Lutheranism in California. Rev. Frederick Mooshake from Goettingen University arrived in 1849 to … Continue reading St Markus Kirche