The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Quebec was designed by Maxime Roisin, Louis N. Audet and Joseph-Égilde-Césaire Daoust, who worked together from 1923 to 1931. Construction began in 1926 on the site of a church that burned in 1922. Interior work resumed in 1937, and both the infobox and text give 1946 as completion. The article names no client.
The infobox lists Norman-Gothic and Romanesque Revival. The building is 344 feet (105 m) long and 157 feet (48 m) wide, with a transept 200 feet (61 m) wide and a steeple 299 feet (91 m) high. Twenty-four capitals designed by Joseph-Émile Brunet in 1948 show 52 religious subjects. The text gives no building materials.
The shrine began as a chapel on land donated in 1658 and grew around a miraculous statue of Saint Anne. It is a national shrine of Canada, with about half a million pilgrims a year. The article gives no hours.
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