Church of Three Holy Hierarchs, Eastern Orthodox cathedral in 15th arrondissement, Paris, France.
The Church of Three Holy Hierarchs occupies a basement and ground-floor space at 5 rue Pétel in Paris's 15th arrondissement. Its street facade is a low wall of light beige bricks laid in a basketweave pattern, with five tall, narrow windows fitted with dark vertical louvers and plain white frames. The building was rebuilt in 1958 as part of a residential block, with the church placed inside as a commercial space.
The parish was founded in March 1931 by Bishop Benjamin (Fedchenkov) and about twenty faithful who stayed with the Moscow Patriarchate after Metropolitan Eulogius left its jurisdiction. They rented a former bicycle-factory basement at 5 rue Pétel, consecrated it at Easter 1931, and in 1946 the church became the cathedral of the Western European Exarchate.
The cathedral is named after three fourth-century bishops: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and John Chrysostom, who profoundly influenced Christian thought. Their veneration shapes how the interior is decorated and reveals their continued importance to the Orthodox community today.
The building is located on rue Pétel and is easily reached on foot with clear signage visible from street level. Visitors should be aware it is an active place of worship and conduct themselves respectfully.
The church keeps the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, dated 1758 and brought from Moscow by Napoleon's army in 1812. In 1931 the parish raised the 15,000-franc deposit in three days; a woman named Nadezhda Soboleva sold her jewellery to pay the rest.
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