Saint-Serge Church, Orthodox church near Buttes-Chaumont Park, Paris, France.
Description
The Église de la Sainte-Trinité-et-Saint-Serge is an Orthodox church near the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont in Paris. The brick building has a wooden entrance with twin stairways rising to the portal on the upper level.
History
The church was built in 1861 for German Protestants and taken over by the Russian Orthodox community in 1924. That community formed through the arrival of Russian refugees after 1917.
Culture
The interior displays a wooden iconostasis with more than one hundred saint images, including a royal gate from 16th-century Moscow. These liturgical objects were donated by Russian families who fled into exile after the Revolution.
Practical
The church opens on Sundays for services, which visitors are welcome to attend. The nearest metro stations are Laumière and Ourcq on Line 5.
Did you know?
The complex houses the Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint-Serge, the only institution in France teaching Orthodox theology in French. It trained influential theologians of the 20th century.
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