It is in a peripheral district of the east of Paris that this church dedicated to the Holy Spirit was built between 1926 and 1935. Cardinal Verdier entrusted this ambitious project to Paul Tournon, an architect with a classical education, who had just experimented with new techniques in Sainte-Thérèse d'Elizabethville (now Lubumbashi, Zaire).
The Kagyu-Dzong Centre was established in 1974 by Lama Gyurme. The plans for the centre's building were drawn by the architect Jean-Luc Massot on Kalu Rinpoche's directives and construction began in 1983. Inaugurated in 1985, it is a Tibetan and Bhutanese style temple located near the Vincennes Wood Pagoda, headquarters of the International Buddhist Institute founded by Jean Sainteny.
Built in the 1920s, the Saint-Louis de Vincennes church was designed before the First World War. This shows the audacity of the young architects Jacques Droz and Joseph Marrast who, from the outset, chose to use the new material in architecture that reinforced concrete represented, to design a space dedicated to worship free of traditional walls and pillars. In addition to this, there was an immediate desire to turn it into an interdisciplinary artistic project heralding the revival of the sacred art of the inter-war period. Listed as a Historic Monument, it is one of the rare churches of this period in France, entirely preserved.
The church of Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts was built in 1902-03. The church is built of brick and stone on a basilica plan in the neo-Romanesque style. Some parts and decorations are typical of the Art Nouveau of the Nancy School. The façade is made of brick and stone. It opens with a scalloped semi-circular portal and three lancet windows.
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