Kagyu-Dzong Centre

Built at the beginning of the 20th century, the church was classified as a Historic Monument in 1984. The project was particularly interesting because it was supported by many patrons and artists. The octagonal bell tower is particularly impressive: it dominates the surroundings with its 53 m high. The style of the building, in reinforced cement, is a witness to the new rationalist school of the 1930s, represented here by the architects Marc Brillaud de Laujardière and Raymond Puthomme. The church houses painted wooden panels, art deco style, glass canopies by Max Ingrand, frescoes by Paule and Max Ingrand, as well as a monumental statue of Saint Agnes.

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).

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.