Church of Saint-Pierre de Montmartre (Eglise Saint-Pierre de Montmartre) description and photos - France: Paris (Topic)

Church of Saint-Pierre de Montmartre (Eglise Saint-Pierre de Montmartre) description and photos - France: Paris. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Eglise Saint-Pierre de Montmartre.

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The Church of Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre is arguing for the right to be called the oldest church in Paris with Saint-Germain-des-Pres. It is located behind the facade of the Sacre-Coeur and seems to disappear for the eyes of tourists in this majestic canopy. And the church is very interesting.

It was built like the church of the Abbey of Montmartre - it was founded in 1153 together with her son, King Louis VII, Adelaide of Savoy. She became the first abbess here, died a year later and was buried here. An exceptional phenomenon - Adelaide of Savoy was a queen, "according to status" her ashes should rest in Saint-Denis.

The monastery had an unenviable fate. In 1590 Henry VI laid siege to Paris and occupied the Montmartre Hill. When he lifted the siege, almost all the nuns left with a detachment of Huguenots. In 1790, the revolutionaries destroyed the monastery, The forty-sixth abbess Louise de Montmorency-Laval was sent to the guillotine just a few days before Thermidor, which put an end to the terror of the Jacobins.

Only the church survived from the entire monastery. Gone are the days when the great Marc-Antoine Charpentier wrote sacred music especially for Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre. The revolutionaries desecrated the church by building a Temple of Mind here. Then a warehouse was located here for some time.

In 1794, an optical telegraph of the Chappe brothers system was installed on the tower of the church, one of the highest points of Paris. It was this station that received the message about Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.

Holy Masses in the church were resumed only in 1908. During the Second World War, old stained glass windows were lost, in 1953 they were replaced by neo-Gothic stained glass windows by the glassblower and designer Maurice Max-Ingran. It is believed that the marble columns inside the church date back to late antiquity, when a temple dedicated to Mars stood on this site. The bronze gates of the church by the Italian Tommaso Gismondi, which survived in all revolutions and wars, are very beautiful. The main gates depict scenes from the life of the Apostle Peter, the heavenly patron of the temple - from his calling by Jesus to the crucifixion in Rome.

The church is adjoined by the smallest abandoned cemetery in Paris, Calvere (“the cemetery of the Crucifixion” - in 1833 behind a crucifix was erected in the church). The cemetery is opened for visitors once a year, on November 1, All Saints Day. The magnificent bronze Gate of Resurrection by Tommaso Gismondi leads here.

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