Our Lady of Montserrat R.C. Church.
Located high on a ridge of the Central Range in the village of Tortuga facing westward towards the Gulf of Paria. It is a wooden church, which was built by its first priest and architect, Fr. Marie Jules Dupoux, and blessed on December 24, 1878. The church was named after the Montserrat Hills on which it stands, a name given by the Spanish settlers who named the area after the Montserrat Mountains of Catalonia, in the region of Barcelona region of Spain.
Almost 140 years old and arguably the oldest church in Trinidad and Tobago, the church of Our Lady of Montserrat is also well know as a Shrine to Our Lady. A special festival is held every year on the Sunday nearest to September 8th and is attended by hundreds of patrons from all over Trinidad.
