The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal
Read this as history, not just spectacle. The Sulpicians built it in 1829, deliberately the largest church in North America at the time, as a Catholic statement of presence in a city where Protestant Anglo power was rising. The blue-and-gold interior was an assertion. Leonard Cohen's funeral was held here in 2016, which tells you what it still means to the city.
The 1829 Gothic Revival basilica built by the Sulpicians — a deep-blue, gilded interior that was a deliberate assertion of Catholic dominance after the conquest.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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