Paris and the Protestants

Jean Calvin’s Paris, rather the Paris area where he used to live as a student, was the Latin Quarter, more precisely[...]

The foundation stone was laid on 28 July 1886 at 102 boulevard Arago, opposite the Protestant Institute of Theology.[...]

The Protestant Faculty of theology of Paris was founded in 1873, and called Protestant Independent school of theology,[...]

Founded by Fernand de Schickler in 1866 and located near the Place Vendôme, the Société de l’Histoire du Protestantism[...]

Saint Germain des Prés played a key role in the birth of Protestantism, thanks to the humanist and theologian Jacques [...]

From the Pont des Arts the beautiful view evokes Protestant Paris during the reign of Henri IV.[...]

This reformed temple of the French Protestant united Church is the most historically vibrant one in Paris.[...]

Across the rue de Rivoli you can enter the Cour Carrée, the oldest part of the Louvre Palace.[...]

This district was built in the 17th century between the Stock-Exchange and the Louvre on various abandoned sites. The [...]

Henri IV was murdered in his carriage on his way to Sully’s home in front of number 11 rue de la Ferronnerie.[...]

The first church was built in 1294 in remembrance of a miracle concerning a host that escaped from a pot of boiling[...]

The name is a distortion of Kernevenoy, a gentleman from Britany who had the mansion built in 1544, and converted to[...]

Formerly this church was the convent church of the Visitation Sainte-Marie, built in the Marais district near Bastille[...]

It was built in 1907, and is the last large temple erected within Paris since the early 20th century.[...]

The ‘social hotel’ belongs to the Salvation Army. It was built in 1912 where the Filles de la Croix convent used to be,[...]

Until 1970 the House was the Mother House of the community of the deaconesses of Reuilly, founded in 1841 by pastor[...]

During the 19th century Paris spread to the West, especially into the Passy, Auteuil, Batignolles and Porte Maillot[...]

In 1834 on the initiative of the liberal pastor Athanase Coquerel, a first Temple was built in wood on the boulevard des[...]

In 1858, pastor Eugène Casalis, a well-known missionary in Lesotho and then also head of the Paris Mission Society[...]