Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal, 2010
French: Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal), is a Roman Catholic basilica on the northern slope of Mount Royal in Montréal.

In 1904, Blessed André Bessette, CSC, began the construction of a small chapel on the side of the mountain near Notre Dame College. Soon the growing number of visitors made it too small. Even though it was enlarged, a larger church was needed and in 1917 one was completed — it is called the Crypt, and has a seating capacity of 1,000. In 1924, the construction of the basilica was inaugurated; it was finally completed in 1967. The Oratory's dome is the third-largest of its kind in the world after the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro in the Ivory Coast and Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the church is the largest in Canada.

Saint Joseph's Oratory

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Garden leading up to Oratory

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Oratory chapel

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Oratory chapel, organ

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View from Oratory

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Bells

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Monument in front of Oratory

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Monument in front of Oratory

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Monument in front of Oratory

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Monument in front of Oratory

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