De L'Église station

De L'Église station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Verdun in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[3] 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.

For the station in Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, France, see Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône-Quartier de l'Église Station.
De L'Église
Location250 Rue Galt and
133 av. de l'Église, Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Coordinates45°27′46″N 73°34′01″W
Operated bySociété de transport de Montréal
Connections
  Société de transport de Montréal
Construction
Depth19.8 m (65 ft) (Honoré-Beaugrand)
25.6 m (84 ft) (Angrignon platform), 5th deepest
ArchitectLemay et Leduc
History
Opened3 September 1978
Passengers
2019[1][2]3,199,191  5.2%
Rank38 of 68
Services
Preceding station   Montreal Metro   Following station
toward Angrignon
Green Line

Architecture and art
Station's kiosks

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

Origin of the name

This station is named for Rue de l'Église, in turn named for the Église Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs near the station. (The roadway continues into Côte-Saint-Paul under the name Avenue de l'Église, itself named for the Église Saint-Paul in that neighbourhood.) This roadway has existed since at least 1834; the portion in Verdun, previously called rue du Pavillon, became known as rue de l'Église or Church Street following the construction of the first Église Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs in 1899.[4]

Connecting bus routes
Société de transport de Montréal
Route
12 Île-des-Soeurs
37 Jolicoeur
58 Wellington
61 Wellington
350 Verdun/LaSalle

Nearby points of interest

References
  1. Société de transport de Montréal (2020-05-21). Entrants de toutes les stations de métro en 2019 (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2020.091.
  2. Société de transport de Montréal (2019-08-08). Achalandage du métro mensuel, station par station (Report) – via Access to Information Act request, reference no. 0308.2019.197.
  3. De L'Église Station
  4. "Fiche descriptive - Rue de l'Église". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca. Commission de toponymie du Québec.

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