The most beautiful religious buildings Petite Côte

Built in 1887, the Basilica of Our Lady of Deliverance is one of the oldest in the country. It is an important place of Catholic pilgrimage (on the weekend of Pentecost) and testifies to the important presence of Catholicism on the Petite Côte. It houses a black Virgin who was blessed by Pope John Paul II in 1992. To accommodate the millions of pilgrims who celebrate Mary each year, a new shrine, of colossal size, should soon open its doors.

The island of Fadiouth is home to a predominantly Christian church, Saint-François-Xavier, built in 1981. Its roof, now made of sheet metal, had to be rebuilt after the great storm of 1999. Christians and Muslims got together to rebuild the building. There is nothing exceptional about the building itself, but people come here especially to attend masses in Gregorian, French, Serer and Wolof, accompanied by percussion and religious songs.