Synagogue in Besançon

The Synagogue in Besançon is an Ashkenazi synagogue completed in 1869 by architect Pierre Marnotte. This Neo-Moorish stone building still serves as a synagogue.

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Besancon Cathedral

Built at the beginning of the 18th century, it was first a parish church before becoming a basilica in 1952, then a cathedral 37 years later.

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Church of Saint-Maurice, Cirey

The St Maurice church of Cirey-les-Bellevaux was built in 1870, in place of a chapel belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Bellevaux. It was designed with a Greek cross-shaped plan, and is considered one of the most beautiful rural churches in France. In the 18th century pilgrims went there to venerate the relics of St Pierre de Tarentaise. In 1944, the church was damaged during a bombardment.

Basilique Notre-Dame de Gray

The Notre-Dame de Gray basilica is the parish church of the town of Gray, in Franche-Comte. Attached to the diocese of Besancon, it is part of the parish of Notre-Dame de Gray. It was built in the 15th and 16th centuries, in a hybrid Gothic-Renaissance style, on the site of the first Notre-Dame church destroyed in 1477 during the War of the Burgundy Succession. Since 1641 it has housed the heart of Saint Pierre Fourier and since 1802 the miraculous statue of Notre-Dame de Gray. The possession of these two relics earned him the elevation to the title of minor basilica on July 16, 1948 by Pope Pius XII.