Aix-en-Provence Cathedral

The architect of the church is Jean-Louis Sourdeau and the sculptures, carved directly in concrete, are the work of Carlo Sarrabezolles. The church was inaugurated in 1935. The church as a whole was registered as a historical monument in 1991.

The village of Les Trois-Lucs only began to develop at the beginning of the 20th century, with the arrival of the tramway linking this remote location to the heart of Marseille. Soon, the need for a place of worship was felt. The Camau-Parenque family offered a piece of land on the express condition that the chapel to be built there would be dedicated to Saint Rita in memory of their deceased daughter. The parish priest, Father Jean-Baptiste Gandolfi, is in charge of the construction of the building. Modest, made of bricks, it was inaugurated in 1932 by Mgr Dubourg, Bishop of Marseille.

The Old Major was built from the 11th century on the site of a first church dating from the 5th century. The cathedral, of Provençal Romanesque style, then had a bell tower added in the 14th century. The destruction of the old cathedral of the Major was decided in 1852, to allow the construction of the new cathedral Sainte-Marie-Majeure in Marseille. The old cathedral only owes its rescue to the intervention of the French Archaeological Society, which blocked its destruction in 1853. Having become a parish church, it remained used for worship until the 1950s.