Part One · Within Paris

    Montparnasse and Vaugirard

    14e and 15e arrondissements · seven churches · 12 recorded visits

    The nave of Saint-Christophe-de-Javel
    The nave of Saint-Christophe-de-Javel. 14 June 2024, 14:21. Opens Section VII

    Seven churches in the record stand south and west of Montparnasse, in the fourteenth and fifteenth arrondissements.

    The oldest of the present buildings, Saint-Lambert de Vaugirard, was begun in 1848; Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge, begun in 1863, bears witness to the extension of Paris in 1860. Notre-Dame-du-Travail followed around 1900, its iron nave hidden behind a Romanesque front, and Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire in 1911. The twentieth century added Saint-Christophe-de-Javel, built of molded reinforced cement, Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue and the round concrete church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette. Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue was built through the Chantiers du Cardinal, founded in 1931 to help finance the construction of new churches in Paris and its suburbs.

    Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge and Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue each have three recorded visits, the most in this section.

    THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF THE 14e AND 15e

    Map of the 14th and 15th arrondissements with the seven recorded churches, numbered as in the catalogue28304146474849

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

    The churches, in the order of the book

    No. 41Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge82 avenue du Général-Leclerc, 14e3 visitsNo. 30Notre-Dame-du-Travail59 rue Vercingétorix, 14e2 visitsNo. 46Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire194 rue Raymond-Losserand, 14e1 visitNo. 47Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette38 rue de Cronstadt, 15e1 visitNo. 28Saint-Antoine-de-Padoue52 boulevard Lefebvre, 15e3 visitsNo. 49Saint-Lambert de VaugirardPlace Gerbert, 15e1 visitNo. 48Saint-Christophe-de-Javel4 rue Saint-Christophe, 15e1 visit

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