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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

The theatre came first: the hall beneath this church opened five months before the church itself, and it has now been staging performances for 160 years. Le Gesu, at 1202 rue de Bleury in downtown Montreal's Quartier des spectacles, pairs one of the city's oldest performance halls with its only fully Baroque-style church - both built in 1865 for the Jesuit-run College Sainte-Marie. The amphitheatre was inaugurated on 10 July 1865 with an academic debate, originally holding close to 1,200 seats ...