An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device in which a risk of generation of a image sticking is reduced. A liquid crystal display device (100) of the present invention includes a pair of glass substrates (11) and (21), a liquid crystal layer (30) provided between the pair of glass substrates (11) and (21), an alignment layer (23) provided between the liquid crystal layer (30) and at least one of the pair of glass substrates (11) and (21), and an alignment sustaining layer (24) for defining a direction in which liquid crystal molecules constituting the liquid crystal layer (30) are inclined, the alignment sustaining layer (24) being provided between the alignment layer (23) and the liquid crystal layer (30), the alignment layer (23) and the alignment sustaining layer (24) being covalently bound to each other.