Église Notre-Dame-Auxiliatrice de Nice, Art Deco church in Nice, France

Église Notre-Dame-Auxiliatrice is a church building designed in the Art Deco style, featuring geometric forms and decorative elements. Large colored glass windows fill the interior with light and give the space a distinctive quality.

Salesians founded a vocational school and lycée here, and in 1924 began building the first church they erected in France. Architects Jules Febvre and Marius Déporta modelled it on Notre-Dame du Raincy; the first stone was laid on 31 December 1926 and Bishop Rémond blessed the finished church on 28 May 1933. It was listed as a monument historique in 2001 and classified in 2017.

The name honours Mary Help of Christians, to whom Don Bosco was devoted. Inside, Eugène Doucet spent ten years painting a life-size Stations of the Cross on the side walls, and a cobalt-blue and gold cross covers 242 m² of ceiling. Antoine Bessac made the twelve historiated stained-glass windows.

The church stands on place Don-Bosco, next to the lycée of the same name, in the north of Nice. The nave holds up to a thousand people, so it fills during parish services. Enter through the porch under the carved canopy; the interior frescoes and the 242 m² ceiling cross are best seen in daylight coming through the windows.

Between 1943 and 1944, the Salesian orphanages in Nice and the Marcel network hid Jewish children in this church's institution, sheltering them from the militia and Nazi persecution. The rescue is documented in the parish's wartime history.