Pfarrkirche Franz von Sales, Modern church in Favoriten district, Vienna, Austria.
Pfarrkirche Franz von Sales is a Catholic church built in 1962–63 to plans by Georg Lippert in Vienna's Favoriten district. The rectangular concrete building is largely undecorated outside, with brick facing only on the apse. Its freestanding square bell tower rises 38 meters: concrete slabs up to 25 meters, then steel-reinforced ribs forming a basket for the bells. A large concrete relief by Josef Troyer showing the risen Christ blesses the entrance.
Architect Georg Lippert designed this Catholic church following modern architectural principles, with completion in 1963. The structure emerged during a period when church architecture was reinventing itself using contemporary materials like concrete.
The concrete relief on the entrance front is by sculptor Josef Troyer and shows the risen Christ in a blessing gesture. Inside, the painter Ernst Karl created a modern devotional image of Saint Francis de Sales, to whom the church is dedicated.
The church is regularly open for masses and private prayer and is run by the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales. The high bell tower serves as an easy landmark to locate the building in the neighborhood.
The church's organ has just five registers and was built by Franz Capek. The painter Ernst Karl contributed a modern devotional image of Saint Francis de Sales, and the tabernacle was designed by sculptor Josef Troyer, who also made the concrete relief of the risen Christ on the entrance facade.
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