Part One · Within Paris

    Bercy, the Gobelins and the Butte-aux-Cailles

    12e and 13e arrondissements · eleven churches · 27 recorded visits

    The choir of Notre-Dame-de-la-Gare
    The choir of Notre-Dame-de-la-Gare. 16 June 2025, 15:39. Opens Section VI

    The Seine enters Paris between the twelfth and thirteenth arrondissements, and eleven of their churches are in the record.

    All eleven present buildings date from between the 1820s and the 1960s, as these quarters filled and, later, were rebuilt. Notre-Dame-de-Bercy, begun in 1823, was rebuilt after it burned during the Commune. Notre-Dame-de-la-Gare rose in the 1850s on a hill then outside Paris, and Sainte-Anne de la Butte-aux-Cailles rests on piles above the covered Bièvre. The Saint-Esprit, with domes that recall Hagia Sophia, belongs to the 1930s; Saint-Marcel, Saint-Éloi and Saint-Albert-le-Grand to the years around the Second Vatican Council.

    Sainte-Anne has seven recorded visits, from October 2018 to June 2024, the most in this section; Notre-Dame-de-Bercy and Notre-Dame-de-la-Gare have four each.

    THE ELEVEN CHURCHES OF THE 12e AND 13e

    Map of the 12th and 13th arrondissements with the eleven recorded churches, numbered as in the catalogue510131933343840435059

    Numbers are catalogue numbers. Church positions from published coordinates; the Seine and the boundaries are simplified.

    The churches, in the order of the book

    Hoc est opus. Et satis est.