The competition for a church and presbytery project was decided in 1868, and was won by the architect Alfred Coisel, who carried out the construction of the building between 1869 and 1874.
Built according to a Latin cross plan with a false transept, the church of Saint Michael is south-facing and has a Romano-Byzantine architecture. The church consists of a seven-bay nave flanked by simple side aisles.
The Synagogue in Lille is an Ashkenazi synagogue completed in 1891 by architect Albert Hannotin. This stone building still serves as a synagogue.
The church was erected by the architect Jules Batigny between 1875 and 1878 and again between 1895 and 1898. The bell tower was only completed in 1928 by the architect Charles Sarazin. Although made of reinforced concrete, it did not withstand the weather and had to be entirely restored between 2005 and 2008.
The present church is built on the site of the first Jesuit chapel built in 1610 and destroyed in 1740 in a fire. In 1743, the architect Dominique Delesalle drew up the plans for the new church and the foundation stone was laid under the direction of the architect François Joseph Gombert, who had already worked on the church of the Convent of the Discalced Carmelites in Lille.
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