Église Saint-Eugène Sainte-Cécile
Église Saint-Eugène Sainte-Cécile stands in Paris as a Roman Catholic church where Neo-Gothic forms meet an unexpectedly light iron structure. Architects Louis-Auguste Boileau and Louis-Adrien Lusson designed the church. Its modest exterior presents triangular gables and a rose window, while its niches remain without statues. The parish served the growing Faubourg Poissonnière district.
Completed in 1855, this became France’s first church with an entirely iron-framed construction. The decision reduced costs and opened a spacious interior on a small site. Inside, vivid iron columns replace traditional stone supports beneath the high ceiling. Gaspard Gsell and Eugène Oudinot created stained glass scenes from Christ’s life and the Stations of the Cross. The design idealises thirteenth-century Gothic through nineteenth-century French Romanticism. The church became a monument historique in 1983.
The grand pipe organ by Joseph Merklin was exhibited at Paris’s Exposition Universelle. Jules Verne also celebrated his marriage inside these walls.
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