Notre Dame du Sacre Coeur Chapel Construction Timeline

Blueprints for the Notre-Dame du Sacre-Coeur Chapel are drawn in the spring of 1888

Construction is begun at the end of the summer of 1888

Grand Opening of the Chapel on September 22nd, 1891

A devastating fire wrecks the Chapel on December 7th, 1978

Reconstruction begins in 1979

Grand Opening of the newly reconstructed Chapel in 1982

Installation of the organ in the Chapel in 1982

Inauguration of the organ on February 10th, 1983