Restoration of Our Lady of Montserrat

The Shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat is located in the tiny village of Tortuga in the Central Range of Trinidad, perched high up on a ridge overlooking the Gulf of Paria. Capuchin missionaries found this location and built a Mission which eventually became the only remaining wooden Catholic church in Trinidad and Tobago. It is the third nationally recognized Marian shrine in the Archdiocese of Port-of-Spain, the 123rd heritage site listed on the National Trust listing, and the only Catholic Church named after Our Lady of Montserrat in the English-speaking Caribbean.

In 2004, restoration projects were put in place to restore some of the major artworks of the church, including the beautiful stained-glass windows which line the church, and the original antique paintings of the Stations of the Cross dated at over 150 years old. A new restoration phase was announced in 2019 which continues to this day and is focused on restoring the foundational elements of the church that have begun to deteriorate past their “shelf-life”, such as the historical wooden elements of the church that have become worn with time and battles with mother nature.

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