Saint Jacques de Montréal
Saint-Jacques de Montréal was a Roman Catholic cathedral in Montreal and the seat of the diocese of Montreal . It was inaugurated in 1825 and destroyed by fire in 1852. A small part has been preserved and is integrated into the campus of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
history
In 1820, Montreal, which at that time still belonged to the Archdiocese of Québec , received an auxiliary bishop . In order to no longer be dependent on the then dominant Sulpizian order, the diocese planned to build a new church at the intersection of Rue Saint-Denis and Rue Sainte-Catherine . Construction began on May 22, 1823, and the inauguration took place on September 22, 1825. Ignace Bourget , the first chaplain , was in charge of the building supervision . The church was consecrated to Saint James the Elder . On September 8, 1836, after the establishment of the Diocese of Montreal, it received the status of a cathedral.
A devastating fire destroyed the cathedral on July 8, 1854, along with 1200 other buildings. Bishop Ignace Bourget decided to build it in another location (the Marie-Reine-du-Monde de Montréal cathedral ). The destroyed cathedral was rebuilt as a parish church under the direction of the architect John Ostell . However, the church also burned down in 1858, just a year after it opened. Victor Bourgeau , one of the most important Montreal architects of the time, built a second new building in 1860. This church received an 85 meter high tower in 1876 and a transept in 1889.
In 1933 a fire also destroyed the third church, which was then poorly repaired. In the 1970s, the UQAM campus was built in the same district. The government of the province of Québec placed the church tower and the transept under monument protection in 1973. Architect Dimitri Dimakopoulos built the Judith-Jasmin pavilion around it , which opened in 1979.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ignace Bourget . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ). , accessed October 28, 2011.
- ^ Historique du pavillon Judith-Jasmin. (No longer available online.) Université du Québec à Montréal, archived from the original on October 10, 2011 ; Retrieved October 28, 2011 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 45 ° 30 ′ 51.1 ″ N , 73 ° 33 ′ 39.6 ″ W.