De L'Église (Montreal Metro)

De L'Église

Location

250 Rue Galt and
133 av. de l'Église, Montreal
Quebec, Canada

Coordinates

45°27′46″N 73°34′01″W / 45.46278°N 73.56694°WCoordinates: 45°27′46″N 73°34′01″W / 45.46278°N 73.56694°W

Operated by

Société de transport de Montréal

Connections

STM buses

Construction

Depth

19.8 metres (65 feet) (Honoré-Beaugrand)
25.6 metres (84 feet) (Angrignon platform), 5th deepest

Architect

Lemay et Leduc

History

Opened

3 September 1978

Traffic

Passengers

2,295,037 entrances in 2006, 40th of 68

Services

Preceding station		Montreal Metro		Following station
Verdun toward Angrignon		Green Line		LaSalle toward Honoré-Beaugrand

De L'Église station (French; literally translated, "of the Church") is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Verdun in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line. The station opened on September 3, 1978, as part of the extension of the Green Line westward to Angrignon station.

Designed by Jean-Maurice Dubé, it was planned as a normal side platform station. However, during the station's construction, a cave-in of the surrounding weak Utica Shale formation made it necessary to build the station with a narrower profile. It is therefore built with stacked platforms, with the Honoré-Beaugrand platform above and Angrignon below, and both directions opening to the left instead of the usual right. There are two accesses, one in the centre and one at the western end of the station, with separate ticket halls.

The station is decorated with a series of circular motifs in ceramic tile on the lower levels and concrete bas-reliefs in the upper levels by Claude Théberge and Antoine D. Lamarche

This station is named for av. de l'Église. The church in question is the Église Saint-Paul in the Côte-Saint-Paul district at the north end of the avenue. This roadway has existed since at least 1834, and became known under its present name some time after 1879.

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