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Notre-Dame Basilica

O'Donnell, James; Bourgeau, Victor
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Alternative Title
Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/100268
Date
1823-1879
Description
Niche with statue, showing typical Gothic Revival detailing along the north wall; Notre-Dame Church was raised to the status of basilica by Pope John Paul II during a visit to the city on April 21, 1982. The church's Gothic Revival architecture is among the most dramatic in the world; its interior is grand and colourful, its ceiling is coloured deep blue and decorated with golden stars, and the rest of the sanctuary is a polychrome of blues, azures, reds, purples, silver, and gold. It is filled with hundreds of intricate wooden carvings and several religious statues. The stained glass windows along the walls of the sanctuary depict scenes from the religious history of Montreal. It also has a Casavant Frères pipe organ, which comprises four keyboards, 97 stops, almost 7000 individual pipes and a pedal board. The sanctuary was finished in 1830, and the first tower in 1843. On its completion, the church was the largest in North America. The interior took much longer, and Victor Bourgeau worked on it from 1872 to 1879. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/13/2008)
Type of Work
basilica; church
Subject
architectural exteriors, saints, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint, Gothic Revival
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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