Pfarrei Notre-Dame-du-Travail

The Church of Our Lady, Patron of Workers, is located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, in Plaza Catalunya. It is a building from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries built on a steel skeleton. Externally, the church presents a neo-Romanesque style with two octagonal towers. Inside, you can see the entire skeleton structure supported by steel pillars.

The first church in this place was built in the 1840s for the workers working on the construction of the Montparnasse Railway Station. The present temple was completed in 1902. Its architect was the creator of the famous, no longer existing Les Halles market halls, Victor Baltard. He designed a church based on a skeleton structure, similar to railway stations or market halls. Outside, it has a neo-Romanesque setting, while the interior is kept in a style reminiscent of a production hall.

The lower parts of the interior of the church are decorated with polychromes depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments and floral ornaments. In the upper part of the nave there are large windows with inserted, geometric fragments of colored glass, thanks to which on sunny days there is an interesting play of light in the interior.