Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral (Paris)

This article is about the Maronite cathedral in Paris. For the Maronite cathedral in Brooklyn, see Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral (Brooklyn).
Our Lady of Lebanon of Paris Cathedral
Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Liban de Paris
Map
Location15-17 rue d'Ulm
5th arrondissent
Paris
CountryFrance
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchMaronite Church
History
StatusActive
Consecrated13 May 1894
Architecture
Functional statusCathedral
Architect(s)Jules-Godefroy Astruc
StyleNeo-Gothic
Years built1893-1894
Administration
DioceseMaronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Paris
Clergy
ArchbishopNasser Gemayel

Our Lady of Lebanon of Paris Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Liban de Paris) is the cathedral and mother church of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Paris, part of the Maronite Church, for worship of Eastern Catholic tradition. It is located by the Jesuit Fathers of Sainte-Geneviève school in the 5th arrondissent in Paris, France, constructed 1893–94 by architect Jules-Godefroy Astruc.

History

Constructed circa 1893–94 by architect Jules-Godefroy Astruc, it was inaugurated on 13 May 1894, allocated by the Jesuit Fathers of Sainte-Geneviève school in Paris, consecrated to Our Lady of Lebanon, a Marian shrine in Beirut, Lebanon. Following the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State, the Jesuits left it. It was then assigned in 1915 to the Maronite worship. In 1937, the Franco-Lebanese home was built around the parish. Renovations of the roof, canopy and rose were made in 1990–1993

Architecture

  • Entrance to the church.
    Entrance to the church.

The Church of Our Lady of Lebanon also had a cultural role over 30 years, with the classical label Erato who performed most of their recordings in the church. More than 1,200 discs were recorded, including the flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, trumpeter Maurice André and chamber orchestra Jean-François Paillard.

Interiors

  • The interior entrance.
    The interior entrance.
  • The nave and chancel.
    The nave and chancel.

In 1984, at the suggestion of fr:Robert Calle, director of the Curie Institute, adjoining the place was invested for six months by Spanish artist Miquel Barceló who installed a temporary workshop and painted his series of paintings in the Louvre[1] exposed in the following year in the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux.

See also

References

  1. ^ [Collective of authors, Miquel Barceló, drawings book - Exhibitions at the National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Jeu de Paume editions and MNAM 1996 (ISBN 2-908901-44-7 ), p. 15-16.]

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