Church Fire in St-Henri

Montreal, QC - CE - Monday, July 16th, 2007 : goo

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I took these pictures about a month ago. I had heard while eating dinner one day that the church in St-Henri was burning down. I didn't get to take the pictures until a week or two after it burnt.

Anyone who has ever lives on the west side of the borough probably has a story of some-sort about this church and I am no exception; when I first moved to Montreal, I met a few people who later became good firends. I was going to stay at their place that night (an apartment that they wonderfully allowed me to live in for awhile when I lost my prior apartment due to a crazy landlord) and was told to look for the creepy church with the satanic Jesus to get to their house. I unfortunately forgot to take a picture of the Jesus statue with a pentagram spraypainted on it. Last winter, my friend and I heard rumours that the church, abandoned for many years, would play host to an ad-hoc art exhibition. We were told to go to the Place-Saint-Henri Métro station and wait for people dressed as ghosts to take us there. Luckily, we went to see a French Kung Fu Situationist détournement film which caused us to be late and therefore miss the mass arrests made by the police due to trespassing. I walked by this church every day while living at my friends' house and thought it was a horrible eyesore. Now, after its destruction, I somehow find it quite beautiful.

Saint-Henri, Le Sud-Ouest, Montreal

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bh: What church was it? Does anyone know???

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