Saint-Marcel

Saint Marcel was the ninth bishop of Paris, and his figure appears in the stained glass of the church’s front on the boulevard de l’Hôpital. The church was built in the 1960s.

The uncertainties of the district’s planning thwarted the plans of its architect, D. Michelin, and left the church without its square and its front. In the early 1990s his son, Jean Michelin, gave it a presence on the street with an imposing freestanding prism that brings together portal, bell tower and narthex. The decoration is the work of F. Guerrier, H. Guérin, J. Cattant and G. Singier.

The photograph of March 2019 shows a curved white wall and an altar faced with three enamel panels in a cubist manner. A second, of 28 February 2024, shows an enamel Virgin and Child above a candle stand, in the same style.