The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Christ Church Cathedral
This is the Anglo-Protestant counterweight to all the Catholic sites — the seat of the Anglican diocese since 1859. But its best story is modern: in the 1980s the entire cathedral was underpinned and suspended on stilts while a shopping complex was excavated beneath it, so the church literally floated over a hole. Faith balanced on commerce, made visible.
An 1859 neo-Gothic Anglican cathedral that now famously 'floats' above an underground shopping mall — Protestant Montreal, and a wild modern adaptation.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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