The Pantheon stands in the Latin Quarter, atop the Montagne Sainte-Genevieve, and was built between 1758 and 1790, at the request of King Louis XV of France. The King intended it as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, Paris' patron saint. However, by the time it was completed, the French Revolution had begun and the National Constituent Assembly voted in 1791 to transform the Church into a mausoleum for the remains of distinguished French citizens, modelled on the Pantheon in Rome.