Église Notre-Dame-Réconciliatrice de Paris, Church in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France
Notre-Dame-Réconciliatrice is a church and house of prayer in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, built into the ground floor of a larger residential building completed in the 1990s. The interior is a rectangular room lit from above by a ceiling opening, with walls covered in white ceramic tiles.
The site originally held a chapel built in the 19th century by the Salettins, which was demolished to make way for a new residential development. The replacement church, designed by architect Georges Pencreac'h, was built between 1991 and 1993 and placed within the ground floor of the new building.
The church is regularly used by the Sri Lankan community of the neighborhood, who gather here for Sunday Mass and religious celebrations. Tamil inscriptions on the back wall change according to the Christian calendar, giving the interior a multicultural character that is immediately noticeable.
The church is easy to spot from the street, as the entrance is set into the ground floor of a larger residential building. Visitors who want to see the interior are best advised to come outside of Mass times to move around freely.
The stained glass panels visible along the side walls are not new: they come from the original 19th-century chapel and were reused when the current building was constructed. Set into vertical strips, they bring color into an otherwise very plain interior without drawing too much attention to themselves.
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