Daily Archives: Wednesday, August 11, 2010

This past weekend, we finally ventured inside the amazing Byzantine style church, St. Michel and St. Anthony (that’s one church–two parishes combined awhile ago). Since its construction in 1914, it’s been a Mile End treasure and landmark.

The architect responsible was Aristide Beaugrand-Champagne, who was inspired by the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. The dome was the largest in Montreal until St. Joseph’s Oratory was built, but the church still remains a landmark. The pièce de résistance, however, is inside. It was “decorated” (that word somehow seems inadequate, though) by Guido Nincheri, dubbed the “Michelangelo of Montreal”. Nincheri, a Florentine-born Montreal painter, painted other famous churches in the city. Continue reading →