Saint-Éloi

Consecrated at the end of 1968, Saint-Éloi was built with the large apartment blocks that replaced insanitary housing and workshops, to designs by the architect Marc Leboucher. Its form and its materials, steel, aluminum and glass, reflect the austerity and the artistic tendencies that followed the Second Vatican Council. Inside, a steel frame rests on a low brick wall, the altar is carried on steel beams, and the large hall is filled with daylight. The photograph shows the altar beneath a hanging painted in bright strokes of color.