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Belfast City Hall

Belfast City Hall is Belfast City Council's civic building. It is located in Donegall Square, in the heart of Belfast city centre. It first opened its doors on 1 August 1906.

Find out about:

• tours
• opening hours
• Bobbin coffee shop and exhibition area
• registration of births and deaths
• weddings and civil partnerships at City Hall
• public art in City Hall.
• Belfast City Hall Illuminate project

City Hall video

This short video introduces you to City Hall and its history.

Illuminate project

New floodlights have been added to City Hall to light up the building in a variety of colours and combinations, showing off the building's beautiful architectural features.

The low-energy LED lights, on the facade, main dome and turrets, will reduce our energy bills and slash the venue’s CO₂ emissions.

Using the same technology as the Empire State Building in New York, a white illumination will be applied to the building, after dusk, and it will also be ‘colour-washed’ on special dates. These dates can be seen in the table below:

Illuminate project

Occasion	Date	Colour
Gay Pride	Saturday 6 July 2013	Rainbow
Orangefest	Friday 12 July 2013	Orange and purple
Polish Independance Day	Monday 11 November 2013	Red and white
Chinese New Year	Friday 31 January 2014	Red and yellow
St Valentine's Day	Friday 14 February 2014	Red
International Women's Day	Saturday 8 March 2014	Purple
St Patrick's Day	Monday 17 March 2014	Green
May Day	Monday 5 May 2014	Red
Queen's official birthday	To be confirmed - first or second Saturday in June 2014	Red, white and blue

Our councillors have also agreed that 12 nominated charities, selected by the Lord Mayor, Deputy Lord Mayor and High Sheriff, will be able to use the lights for charity events.

This video shows how City Hall will look when lit up in these colours.



The Illuminate project is part-funded by the EU, under the Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme.
For more information, call 028 9027 0273.

Access information

Access to Belfast City Hall is via the front entrance on Donegall Square North, the side entrance on Donegall Square East and the back gate at Donegall Square South. If you are taking part in one of our Saturday tours, please use the back gate entrance only.

• Find out about disabled access at Belfast City Hall

More information

For more information, contact us on:

Telephone: 028 9027 0456
Minicom: 028 9027 0405
Email: civicbuildings@belfastcity.gov.uk