Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Passy, Neoclassical church in the 16th arrondissement, Paris, France

Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Passy is a Neoclassical church whose two naves meet at a dome placed over the crossing. The older nave, moved stone by stone from Rue de Varenne in 1895, was joined in 1956 by a matching nave built where the choir had been. A second portal on Rue de l'Assomption mirrors the original entrance.

The Fathers of Mercy, founded in Lyon in 1808 by Jean-Baptiste Rauzan, settled on the site in 1882. Expelled from their Rue de Varenne convent in 1891, they moved their chapel of Notre-Dame de la Miséricorde here stone by stone in 1895, making it their mother house. Closed after the 1901 law, it reopened in 1907 as a chapel annex of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy and became a parish in 1914.

The parish grew from a chapel of the Fathers of Mercy, a missionary order founded in Lyon in 1808 by Father Jean-Baptiste Rauzan at the request of Cardinal Fesch. The church took its present name, Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, in 1928. Two marble plaques on the columns left of the western nave list the parish priests and the war dead.

The church is located at 88 Rue de l'Assomption and holds regular services throughout the year. You can visit the website to register for parish updates and find information about opening hours and events.

The organ now in the church was built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll around 1900 as a salon instrument; Count Léonce de Saint-Martin, organist of Notre-Dame de Paris, bought it in 1928 for his Place des Vosges flat. Beuchet-Debierre of Nantes enlarged and electrified it for the church, giving it 35 stops, three manuals and a pedalboard.