The Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul is located in the 10e arrondissement of Paris, and is dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul. It gave its name to Saint-Vincent-de-Paul district. The church was built during 1824-1844, on the site of the former Saint-Lazare jail enclosure. In that enclosure had been sited the Maison Saint-Lazare, occupied by Vincent de Paul— he lived and worked there — and afterwards [...]
L’église de la Madeleine, or L’église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (or simply “La Madeleine”), is a church in the 8th arrondissement of Paris that was designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleon’s army. Three false starts were made on building a church on this site. The first design, commissioned in 1757 with construction begun in 1764, [...]
65 meters long, 21 meters wide and 19 meters high St Germain is a small church. Given the various destructions and multiple restorations, this building’s Roman architecture has much changed since the 11th century, though many of its original elements remain intact. The tops of the altar (in four bays) present traditional themes characteristic of [...]
Located on the top of the hill of Montmartre, at what is the highest natural point in Paris, the Basilique du Sacre Coeur stands proud as one of Paris’ most visited destinations. The Sacre Coeur is one of the later churches built in Paris. It was completed in 1914 and opened in 1919 after the [...]
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