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Saint-Denis Cathedral () or at greater length the Cathedral of St. Denis, Saint-Denis, Réunion, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Saint-Denis, capital of the island of Reunion, a province of France in the
Constructed according to the plans of an engineer called Paradis on the site of a church that had preceded it in the 18th century, the first foundation stone was laid on 4 November 1829, by the governor of Penfentenyo. Despite being consecrated as a cathedral in 1860 by Monsignor Maupoint, bishop of Saint-Denis de La Réunion, it did not take its final form until 1863 with the construction of the western porch in the prostyle style and the later addition of a bell tower. The whole building was registered as a ''
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, part of Africa. It is dedicated to Saint Denis, after whom the city of Saint-Denis is named, and is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Saint-Denis-de-La Réunion
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History
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History
Constructed according to the plans of an engineer called Paradis on the site of a church that had preceded it in the 18th century, the first foundation stone was laid on 4 November 1829, by the governor of Penfentenyo. Despite being consecrated as a cathedral in 1860 by Monsignor Maupoint, bishop of Saint-Denis de La Réunion, it did not take its final form until 1863 with the construction of the western porch in the prostyle style and the later addition of a bell tower. The whole building was registered as a ''monument historique
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'' on 13 October 1975.
On 25 May 1946, just outside the cathedral, politician Alexis de Villeneuve was shot dead in the middle of a crowd gathered to hear him speak.
See also
* Roman Catholicism in Réunion *Basilica of St Denis
The Basilica of Saint-Denis (, now formally known as the ) is a large former medieval abbey church and present cathedral in the commune of Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris. The building is of singular importance historically and archite ...
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