The Church of Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot Photo: Church of Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot

The Church of Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot immediately attracts the eye: her gates crowned with a huge multi-level relief of the tympanum of the work of Henri Bouchard, depicting episodes in the life of St. Peter. Powerful bell tower 62 meters high and dominates the surrounding blocks.

A small Church dedicated to St. Peter, stood on this site since the XI century. In the XVII century it was expanded in 1922 in her funeral of Marcel Proust. But in the thirties of last century the old Church was demolished at the site began construction of a new temple by the architect Emile Bois.

The author of the project used the ideas of Byzantine architecture: the building is in the shape of a Greek cross, with four domes surround the Central octagonal pyramid. As the main structural material Bois used the concrete is allowed to combine different surface shapes, from triangles to the octahedra. While Bois deliberately refused to finish the rough concrete surface: rough texture serves as a contrasting backdrop for the many frescoes, sculptures, stained-glass Windows.

The building consists of three main parts: the square bell tower, "lower Church", located in the crypt (here is an altar dedicated to the fallen in the First world) and the "upper Church" crowned with domes. Huge the structure is like a medieval castle.

The interior of the Church literally affects a large frescoes that were done by the artist from Alsace Nicolas Interstellar. Master engraved sketches directly on walls and painted directly on the concrete. On the plural frescoes depict the symbols of the spiritual life of the Church. In small Windows glow very bright stained glass work brothers Monegan. The statue of the virgin and Child and the sacred Heart of Jesus, located in the transept of the Church (the work of Henri Bouchard), unusual gilded. Henri Bouchard has executed the altarpiece for the chapel of the Holy Family, which shows how Christ sends his apostles to share the Good News.

In the chapel of the virgin Mary parishioners kneel before our lady of Chaillot, carved wooden statue of the XVIII century. This is all that remained from the ancient Church, demolished in the early last century.

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