The Church of Saint-Hippolyte by Parisian standards young, she is just over one hundred years. Believe it, looking at the Gothic facade of stone and Sandstone, is impossible. The name of the Church was given in memory of standing here once the Church of Saint-Hippolyte-du-Faubourg, destroyed during the urban transformation of Paris.

In the late nineteenth century, the Paris of the South-Eastern area of Port de Choisy grew rapidly: built residential areas, industry was developed. In 1897 neighbouring parishes took the spiritual patronage of the population of the district. At first, the priests ministered to the Masses in simple trailer. A few years later, the talented designer of cars Hippolyte Panhard donated to the new parish money to purchase land for the Church. It was a generous gift: the earth in the boom years were very expensive.

The building is in the Gothic style was designed by the architect Jules Astryuk. In 1910 the Church was completed and consecrated in memory of the Christian Martyr Saint Hippolyte.

Saint Hippolytus was the overseer of the prison under the emperors Decius and Valerian (III century). In Christianity Hippolytus drew before his execution, archdeacon Laurentius, and the jailer cellar the body of the executed according to Christian tradition. About this brought Decio, who ordered to beat Hippolyte sticks, demanding the renunciation of faith. "I'm a warrior for Christ, my Savior, and I wish for him to die," replied the jailer. All his relatives were killed, the Hippolytus tied to the horses that dragged the Martyr over the rocks until he died.

Above the entrance to the Church is the tympanum of the brush Henri Marret "Double martyrdom of Saint Hippolytus and Saint Lawrence". The artist truthfully conveyed the suffering tied to powerful horses of St. Hippolytus, but distorted the truth in respect of St. Lawrence: he ended his days on the iron grate over the fire.

In 1924 the Church was expanded and gained its current size. Its interior is highlighted with mosaics in the Byzantine spirit of the work of Henri Girard. Above the entrance to the main aisle of the bas-reliefs of Jacques Martin, telling about the life of St. Hippolytus.

The area where the Church, built skyscrapers, the bell tower of Saint-Hippolyte is lost on their background. Generations have changed, changed peoples: Porte de Choisy is now a district of immigrants from Southeast Asia. The Church, however, is in the centre of the local Chinatown.