TheHuguenot Memorial Building, located at 48 Queen Victoria Street,Cape Town, is aprovincial heritage site inCape Town in theWestern Cape province ofSouth Africa.
In 1980 it was described in theGovernment Gazette as[1]
This predominantly Edwardian building was erected by the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church to commemorate the arrival of the French Huguenots (1688). The foundation stone was laid on 24 August 1899 and the building was officially opened on 15 October 1903. The mortal remains ofPresident S.J.P. Kruger lay in state here from 1 December to 6 December 1904.
The grounds for the memorial were not easily obtained. The Huguenot Memorial Society had to go to the Supreme Court in order to secure the rights to the disused cemetery where they intended to erect the building.[2]
The building houses theCape Town office of theSouth African Social Security Agency (SASSA).[3]
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