Notre-Dame-de-la-Gare

Built between 1855 and 1859 on a hill then outside Paris, the church overlooked a territory still thinly settled. Claude Naissant designed it in the neo-Romanesque style. Félix Jobbé-Duval painted the Virgin and Child on the vault of the choir in 1862, and in 1953 the painter Anders Osterlind decorated the choir in the warm tones that were his own. The original windows, badly damaged, were replaced in 1969 by works of Guy Le Chevallier; the organ, by Cavaillé-Coll, dates from 1863. The photograph opening this section looks into the choir.