# Église Saint-Éloi

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Église Saint-Éloi stands in Paris’s twelfth arrondissement as a modern Catholic church designed by architect Marc Leboucher. Architect Marc Leboucher designed this church’s trapezoidal plan. Its metal frame carries aluminium sheets inside and outside, linking the building’s material language with Saint Éloi, patron saint of metalworkers. A thirty-five-metre tower carries bells and a cross. Sandblasted, reinforced glass panels alternate with metal plates and direct daylight towards an altar raised by five steps. The bright interior keeps its decoration deliberately spare. Steel forms the altar, ambo, candlesticks and Christ, while lead shapes a crucifix made by École Boulle students. A large Saint Éloi is the principal statue.

The present church was consecrated in 1968 after two years of construction, replacing earlier buildings on Rue de Reuilly. The first church on Rue de Reuilly dated from 1856. The current building received the Heritage of the Twentieth Century classification in 1999 and the Remarkable Contemporary Architecture label in 2016. Its balcony contains a 1970 Schwenkedel pipe organ. Elements from the former Mutin-Cavaillé-Coll organ remain, and the space accommodates services and concerts through its acoustics. A Marian chapel offers a smaller setting for celebrations. The entrance sits back from Rue de Reuilly at Place Maurice-de-Fontenay, within the renewed Saint-Éloi block. The open plan follows Vatican II principles.

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