# Église Saint-Philippe

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Église Saint-Philippe is a Catholic chapel in Nice, France, also known as Chapelle Saint-Philippe-Néri. Its façade carries the date 1612, a direct visual marker of its early seventeenth-century origins. Wheelchair accessibility adds practical ease as you examine this modest building within Nice’s religious and architectural heritage.

Ponce Ceva, a wealthy Nice resident, completed the chapel in 1612 as a private construction. In 1607, he also brought Nice its first Jesuit college, linking the chapel with education and religious instruction. Jesuit presence connected local worship with learning.

Official protection followed on 27 November 1964, when the chapel became a listed historical monument. Catholic worship and community gatherings kept this small building within local life for over four centuries. Its inscribed date remains the detail that most clearly fixes the structure in Nice’s early modern past.

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## Photos

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