The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly
known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica, is a Roman Catholic
church and minor basilica,
dedicated to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus, in Paris, France. A popular landmark, the basilica is located at
the summit of the butte Montmartre, the
highest point in the city. Sacré-Cœur is a double monument, political and
cultural, both a national penance for the supposed excesses of the Second
Empire and socialist Paris Commune of 1871
crowning its most rebellious neighborhood, and an embodiment of conservative
moral order, publicly dedicated to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus, which was an increasingly popular vision of a loving and
sympathetic Christ.