Basilique-Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, Minor basilica and cathedral in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Canada.
The Sainte-Cécile Basilica-Cathedral is a Catholic place of worship in neo-gothic style with twin bell towers and a steep-roofed design. The interior is illuminated by stained glass windows that rise from the walls toward the vaulted ceiling.
The original church was destroyed by fire in 1933, after which architects Louis-Napoleon Audet and Henri Sicotte Labelle designed the new building. The current basilica was completed in 1935, replacing the lost structure.
The parish is named for Saint Cecilia of Rome, its principal patron, with Christ the King as secondary patron. Six bells cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1935, weighing 10,012 kg in total, ring the midday and 6 p.m. Angelus, the offices, and the civil hours from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; restored in 2021 after eleven years of silence, they were inaugurated on her feast day, 11 November.
Access is from Rue de l'Église in the town center of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. Visitors should contact the administration to confirm opening hours and arrange any guided visits.
The 1935 Casavant Frères organ was dismantled as irreparable after the 4 September 2002 fire. In 2021 the parish moved the Casavant organ from the deconsecrated Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Allégresses church in Trois-Rivières here to give it a second life; its first notes were expected in autumn 2023.
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