Christ Church Cathedral

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  • Address
    635 rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, Downtown
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  • Phone
    843 6577
  • Transport
    underground rail: McGill

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Modeled on a Salisbury, England, church, Montréal's first Anglican bishop had this cathedral built and it was completed in 1859. This church was the talk of the town in the late 1980's when it allowed a shopping center, the Promenades de la Cathédrale, to be built underneath it. Spectacular photos from 1987 show the house of worship resting on concrete stilts while construction went on underneath.

Some were scandalized, others thought the church had 'sold out.' However, the church maintains the extra revenue brought in by the development has added thousands of dollars to the church's coffers.

The interior is sober apart from the pretty stained-glass windows made by William Morris' studios in London. In the rear cloister garden stands a memorial statue to Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved 100,000 Jews from the concentration camps in WWII.