Église Saint-Gilles de Bourg-la-Reine, Neoclassical church in Bourg-la-Reine, France

Église Saint-Gilles is a neoclassical church whose pale stone facade has four tall smooth columns with Ionic capitals carrying a triangular pediment topped by a cross. Tall red double doors sit on the central axis behind the columns, and stone steps lead up to the entrance. Low annexes extend to either side.

The current building was constructed between 1835 and 1837 by architect Auguste Molinos, replacing an earlier 1152 structure that Montmartre Abbey nuns had built. This rebuilding reflected the growing needs of the expanding community.

The parish is named after Saint Giles, and the church keeps a bell blessed in 1780, inscribed with the names of priest Jean Mortier and abbess Marie-Louise de Laval-Montmorency. The cure was long in the gift of the chapter of Notre-Dame de Paris, attached to its 39th partition; since the Revolution the bishop of Paris appoints the priest.

The church stands in the centre of Bourg-la-Reine, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of the Île-de-France region, and serves the parish of Saint-Gilles, one of the 78 parishes of the department. The building is listed in the general inventory of cultural heritage. Access is via the stone steps in front of the portico; the entrance is through the tall red double doors on the central axis.

The bell now in the church was blessed in 1780 by Jean Mortier, canon of Saint-Denis du Pas, and by Marie-Louise de Laval-Montmorency, abbess of Montmartre. It came from the 1152 church demolished in 1836 and carries an inscription recording this blessing.