Notre Dame d’Afrique (Basilica of Our Lady of Africa) – Algiers, Algeria.

Notre Dame d'Afrique (English: “Our Lady of Africa”) is a Catholic basilica in Algiers, Algeria. Pope Pius IX granted Pontifical decrees in the direction of the shrine at the identical day on 15 April 1876:

• The first decree invoked to canonically crown the honored Marian photograph enshrined within. The ceremony of coronation changed into performed through the Archbishop of Carthage Charles Lavigerie on 30 April 1876.
• The 2nd decree raised the sanctuary to the reputation of Basilica primarily based totally on an “immemorial custom”. (Pope Benedict XV later regulated to restriction those privileges in 1918 to Papal edicts except an historic custom already refers to a constructing as a “Basilica”.

Notre Dame d'Afrique is at the north aspect of Algiers, on a 124 m (407 ft) cliff overlooking the Bay of Algiers. It previously may be reached from the metropolis middle through a cable car. It may be taken into consideration to be the counter-piece to the church of Notre-Dame de l. a. Garde on the opposite aspect of the Mediterranean.

Address: Rue de Zighara, Bologhine, Algeria

Completed: 1872

Website: notre-dame-afrique.org/k2-frontpage