Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile

In the middle of the nineteenth century, as the population of Paris rose sharply, Archbishop Sibour entrusted the building of Saint-Eugène to the architect Boileau. Its originality lies less in its Gothic form than in its material: forty-four slender cast-iron columns carry the iron arches of the vault. The Stations of the Cross are all in stained glass, made by Oudinot after preparatory drawings by Séguin, and the organ was built by the Brussels firm of Merklin in 1856. Next to the Conservatoire, it also took the name of Saint Cecilia, patron of musicians. It was consecrated only in 2000.