The church of the Mission de France is a church built at the end of the 17th century and renovated in the 19th century. This church has been listed as a historical monument since December 8, 1965.
The church is oriented, its plan is elongated. It has a gable roof and a rounded apse.
The Bernardine nuns, reformed Cistercian nuns, founded a first convent in Marseilles in 1637 on the new quayside, on the estate of the "King's Garden", spending 800,000 pounds for this construction and settling there on 20 August 1751. The building of the convent and its church was first entrusted to the architect Pierre-Paul Bruand and then to the Marseille architect Balthazar Dreveton. Today the building is transformed into a theatre.
The first church was built in the middle of the 17th century (begun in 1633, consecrated in 1648), replaced by a new church built between 1717 and 1732. Three side chapels were destroyed before the Revolution. The façade and the interior were rebuilt during the Second Empire between 1850 and 1870 (paintings of the vaults by Antoine Sublet).
The beginning of the construction started in the 16th century. It was founded by the friars preachers of the order of Saint Dominic. The Baroque façade was not completed until 1739. In 1926 the church was listed as a historical monument.
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