MOUNT MARY CHAPEL, Old Goa

Last year I went to visit this chapel as i had heard a lot about it, and i noticed that most of the churches and chapels are located on ground level, except this one. that's why the name Mount Mary.Though not many people know that this Chapel exists, a series of steps lead the the white colored Chapel.

The Chapel remains closed throught the year except on mother mary feast which is on the 8th of september, there is no care taker either. Many of them say that one should not go alone to this place after 7pm becouse the road which leads to the church is known for being haunted.


Not much is known about the history of this Chapel.The Chapel offers a beautiful panoramic view of the Old Goa, the other churches in Old Goa, the coconut trees, river Mandovi twisting and turning itself and off course the Konkan Railway. It is all surrounded by greenary. A couple of movies are also shot here like GolMal2

The church was built by Afonso de Albuquerque, completed in 1519, and has been rebuilt twice since; it now makes the perfect, suitably sorrowful place to watch the sunset over the ruins of once-mighty Old Goa.

Usually locked, you can gain entry during the Feast of St Francis Xavier in December, and the Monte Music Festival in February, when concerts are held here.

 It has three main altars dedicated respectively to our lady of the mount, St. Anthony and St. Andrew.