Churches & cathedrals in France

A monument by the architect Soufflot on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève; the visit covers the nave and the crypt, and the panorama is not open.

A Rayonnant Gothic chapel with 1,113 stained-glass windows; guided tours in French run daily.

A basilica given to the continuous adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, day and night, which is why no concerts are held there; inside, the great choir mosaic, the chapels, stained glass and sculptures, and 280 steps up a narrow stair to the dome.

In the nave, Bosio's Apotheosis of Louis XVI and Cortot's Marie-Antoinette Supported by Religion; outside, an open-air campo santo lined with galleries, on the ground that received the remains of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and some 500 people guillotined on the Place de la Révolution.

A parish of the 9th arrondissement that also keeps the Chapelle Sainte-Rita, in the heart of Pigalle, where anyone can seek the consolation Saint Rita brings.

The Chapel of the Conversion of Saint Charles de Foucauld, opened in September 2026, where his relics are venerated.

The shrine of Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, and of Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, where Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine are buried.

The great organ François-Henri Clicquot built for the Sainte-Chapelle, brought here in 1791; in the nave, a monumental wooden pew said to be carved after drawings by Charles Le Brun; and an early 16th-century altarpiece of carved and painted wood showing the miracles of the Virgin.

A night clock by Henry Lepaute in the first gallery, once lit by gas so it told the time day and night; a Christ on the Cross saved from the chapel of the Bastille prison, now in the sacristy; and, on a pillar by the entrance, graffiti left in May 1871, in the last days of the Paris Commune, by the corps of the Enfants du Père Duchêne. The parish registers keep Victor Hugo's signature from his daughter Léopoldine's wedding in 1843.

A site that has been a Roman temple, a Merovingian church, a royal Benedictine abbey and a parish church, open to visit at your own pace.

A place of pilgrimage, peace and contemplation, open to all visitors, with organ recitals in its Dimanches musicaux.

A cathedral that has welcomed visitors to pray for more than 860 years; on weekday afternoons a daily visit presents its spiritual mission as well as its history and art.

Capitals carved with expressive faces, stained glass from scenes of the Bible to Bazaine's recent windows on the seven sacraments, Baroque organs, and the Mansart chapel.

Delacroix's paintings on the walls of the Chapel of the Holy Angels; a gnomon whose spot of sunlight, on sunny days, crosses a metal line on the transept floor at solar noon; Pigalle's Virgin and Child at the far end of the church; and Aristide Cavaillé-Coll's great organ of 1862, with 102 stops on five keyboards.