Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris
Sacré-Cœur Basilica—Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre—rises on the summit of Montmartre with a view over Paris, and its dome sits about 200 meters above the Seine. The idea began after the Franco-Prussian War, when Felix Fournier, Bishop of Nantes, proposed in 1870 a new Catholic church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, framing France’s defeat as a crisis of morals. The building you’re seeing was designed by Paul Abadie, whose neo-Byzantine-Romanesque plan was chosen from seventy-seven submissions. Construction started in 1875 and stretched across forty years, with five different architects, before completion in 1914. It was consecrated in 1919, and in 1885 the basilica began perpetual adoration of the Holy Eucharist. Its hilltop position has also carried politics: it overlooks the area tied to the Paris Commune, making the project controversial to some left-wing figures who read it as a symbol of repression. …
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