On SR 2093, Belmont, North Carolina. County/parish: Gaston.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 1973. NRIS 73001343.
1 contributing building.
The Abbey Basilica of Mary Help of Christians, informally known as the Belmont Abbey, is a Catholic Benedictine monastery and a Minor Basilica in Belmont, North Carolina, United States of America. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The monastery is administered by the American-Cassinese Benedictine Congregation.
Pope Leo XIII officially declared the monastery an abbey on 19 December 1884. Pope Pius XII declared Mary Help of Christians its Patroness via his decree Perfugium Rebus on 5 December 1957. Pope John Paul II raised the shrine to the status of Minor basilica via the Pontifical Decree Sacras Ædes on 27 July 1998.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720399