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The Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ de pʁe]) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter of Paris. It was originally the church of a Benedictine abbey founded in 558 by Childebert I, the son of Clovis, King of the Franks.
The first church was destroyed by the Vikings and rebuilt. The present church was consecrated in 1163, and is considered the oldest church in Paris. The flying buttresses, from the 12th century, were the first on a Paris church. [18] It was named for Saint Germain, an early Bishop of the city. Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs: 254 rue Saint Martin
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Church, Paris; Église Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs; Notre-Dame, the cathedral of Paris, named after Our Lady (4th arr't) 4th arrondissement: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris; Église Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux; Église Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais; Église Saint-Louis-en-l'Île; Église Saint-Merri (Paris) Église ...
A parish church, the church of Saint-Pierre, also was built on the left bank, at the site of the present Ukrainian catholic church; its parish covered most of the modern 6th and 7th arrondissements. The fortifications of King Philip Augustus (1180–1223), the first recorded walls to be built around the entire city, left Saint‑Germain‑des ...
The first place of worship on the site was a small oratory founded in the 5th century to commemorate a meeting of Saint Germanus with Saint Genevieve, the future patron saint of Paris. [2] This structure was replaced by a large church, either by Chilperic I , King of Franks , in about 560, or by Saint Landry of Paris , the bishop of Paris, in ...
The current 6th arrondissement, dominated by the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés—founded in the 6th century—was the heart of the Catholic Church's power in Paris for centuries, hosting many religious institutions.
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The church in 1550 Interior of the Church of Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais. A church dedicated to Saints Gervasius and Protasius, two Christian martyrs from Milan, is recorded as existing on the site in the 7th century, making it one of the first parish churches on the right bank in Paris.