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Heritage, visit, Religious heritage in Martinique

    Religious Heritage
    Abbeys in basilicas by way of chapels or cathedrals, a wide choice of visits and déouvertes offers itself to you. That you are an amateur of the sobriety of the Romanesque art or the magnificence of the Gothic art, you will be enchanted to visit the numerous present buildings on all the French territory.
39 in Martinique.

Religious heritage in Saint-Esprit

Eglise aux Sept Dons

Mairie du Saint-Esprit Bourg 97270 Saint-Esprit (Martinique)
Phone : 05 96 56 68 80
The Church is the first monument in the city. It is listed in the inventory of historical monuments since the decree of March 16, 1995. In 1778 the first church was built on the site of the current ...

Religious heritage in Saint-Joseph

GROTTE DE LOURDES

Mairie de Saint-Joseph Goureaud 97212 Saint-Joseph (Martinique)
Phone : 05 96 57 60 06
This cave was constructed in a movement of fervour aroused up to Martinique, with the 18 appearances of the Holy Virgin to a girl of 14 years Bernadette SOUBIROUS from February 11 to July 16, 1858 in ...

Religious heritage in Bellefontaine

Le Cimetière de Bellefontaine

------- Le Bourg 97222 Bellefontaine (Martinique)
Phone : --------
In the habits and customs of France Commons, the Cemeteries are often located too far from the heart of the city and also near the sea than Bellefontaine .... Located more than a kilometer from the ...

Religious heritage in Sainte-Anne

LES LIEUX DE CULTE

Le Service du Patrimoine- Resp M CALIXTE Alex Place Abbé Morland 97227 Sainte-Anne 97227 Sainte-Anne (Martinique)
Phone : 0596 76 73 06/ 05 96 76 89 85
- The Hiyam of our Lady of Salette other places of worship:-the "Chapel of the Coolies": to the Anglais.On is practiced the pilgrimage Friday Saint. - the "Virgin of the sailors": to the English, ...

Religious heritage in Le Prêcheur

Les 3 cloches

La Mairie Bourg 97250 Le Prêcheur (Martinique)
Phone : 05 96 52 98 62
The center's bell was given by Louis XIV at the request of Madame de Maintenon morganatic wife, and was cast in Brest in 1712. Inscriptions on the bells: Antoine Joseph, a side: "Leon Albert, Mayor ...

Religious heritage in Grand'Rivière

EGLISE SAINTE CATHERINE D'ALEXANDRIE

Commune de GRAND'RIVIERE Bellevue 97218 Grand'Rivière (Martinique)
Phone : 05 96 55 70 19
Jusqu’en 1848, Grand’Rivière ne dispose que d’une chapelle pour tout lieu de culte. Celle-ci a été édifiée par les jésuites en 1660, dès le début de la colonisation de la région. Elle ...

Religious heritage in Basse-Pointe

Temple Hindous

Communauté hindoue Gradys et Moulin l'Etang 97218 Basse-Pointe (Martinique)
Phone : 05 96 78 99 01
Basse-Pointe constitue le principal foyer de la migration d’hommes et de femmes venus de l’Inde. Ces indiens, appelés « coolie » ont conservé leurs croyances religieuses. Leurs rituels ...

Religious heritage in Case-Pilote

Eglise Notre Dame de l'Assomption

Mairie de Case-Pilote Rue Allègre 97222 Case-Pilote (Martinique)
Phone : 05 96 78 74 04
Une des plus anciennes de la Martinique, fut édifiée, entre 1640 et 1645.
A l'origine, ce n'était qu'une simple pailotte, à l'emplacement de l'église actuelle.
Au milieu du XVII ème ...