Sainte-Trinité

The Paris municipality decided in 1861 to build Sainte-Trinité, and Théodore Ballu built it between 1861 and 1867: a religious architecture of the Second Empire, inspired by the Italian Renaissance. Its bell tower rises to sixty-five meters.

A very wide nave beneath galleries holds sculpture including Paul Dubois’s Virgin and Child, and wall paintings including Félix Barrias’s Holy Trinity, Félix Jobbé-Duval’s Mystic Lamb and Élie Delaunay’s Assumption. Aristide Cavaillé-Coll built its choir organ in 1867 and its great organ in 1869. Alexis Chauvet was the first titular of the great organ, and Olivier Messiaen held it from 1931 to 1992.

The whole church was listed as a historic monument in December 1977 and classified in 2015. In February 2021 the City of Paris began restoring its entrance block.

One photograph from each recorded visit, in order, from March 2019 to February 2026.