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April 13, 2014 by Max Distro LLC

Église de la Madeleine, Paris

Eglise de la Madeleine, Paris

Eglise de la Madeleine, Paris

We first came across La Madeleine after the Beach Boys concert, it appeared like a Roman mirage in central Paris. Madeleine Church (more formally, L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine; less formally, just La Madeleine) is in the 8th arrondissement, centered at the end of rue Royale. This is on a line-of-sight between Gabriel's twin hôtels in the Place de la Concorde to the square established in 1755, as Place Louis XV. The Eglise de la Madeleine is situated between Place de la Concorde and the Palais Garnier opera house, in Haussmannian Paris. Its construction started in 1764 and was finished in 1842. Its appearance is not typical of a religious building, in the form of a Greek temple without any crosses or bell-towers. Its 52 Corinthian columns, each 20 meters (66 feet) high, are carried around the entire building. Napoleon wanted it to be a pantheon in honor of his armies. Inside, there are sculpture, paintings and the famous neo-Byzantine mosaic created by Charles-Joseph Lameire. The magnificent church organ was designed by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Throughout the year, both day and night, the church holds quality classical music concerts.

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Filed Under: Cathedrals & Churches, France, Paris Tagged With: Aristide Cavaille-Coll, Charles Marochetti, Charles-Joseph Lameire, Église de la Madeleine, France, François Rude, Jules-Claude Ziegler, L'église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, La Madeleine, Madeleine Church, Maison Carrée Nîmes, Mary Magdalene, Paris, Pierre-Alexandre Vignon

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