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The Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral in Montreal, Canada, is a scaled-down version of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The first architect solicited for the job refused the project, saying St. Peter’s could not be reproduced on a smaller scale!
The Renaissance-style cathedral was built over 20 years, completed in 1894. It’s 333 feet long, 150 wide, and 252 feet tall at the cupola.
It is a majestic house of worship, with grandeur that extends into all of the small details.
I had no idea what the large wooden structure on the altar was — it didn’t seem like anything I’d see before. Fortunately, Wikipedia is to the rescue: Covering the altar, which is located under the dome, is a neo-baroque ciborium or baldaquin, with twisting columns. It was created in Rome in 1900 by Joseph-Arthur Vincent and is a reproduction of the famous ‘baldacchino’ in St. Peter’s Basilica, created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It is fully hand-made and made with red copper and gold leaf. The angels, garlands and papal insignia were sculpted between 1910 and 1911 by Olindo Gratton.
