Saint Michael the Archangel Church, 105 Saint-Viateur Street West

This church, with its unexpected mosque-like appearance, was built in 1915. Its architect, Aristide Beaugrand-Champagne, inspired by Byzantine art, chose this shape as a reminder of theearly Christian churches, as desired by Pope Pious X. At the time, the construction of the concrete dome was a technical feat. This thin concrete cupola (less than 200 mm thick, over a span of 23 metres) was a daring use of this material at the beginning of the century, remarkable even intemationally. Built by the Irish, whose symbolic shamrocks adorn the front pillars, the church now serves the Polish community.

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