# Église Saint-Philippe du Roule

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Église Saint-Philippe du Roule is a Roman Catholic church in Paris, with a Neoclassical façade shaped like a Roman temple. Jean-François Chalgrin designed it, and construction continued from 1774 to 1784 for the growing Roule community.

The site once held a chapel beside a leprosy hospital, demolished in 1739. King Louis XV commissioned the present church, whose planned two bell towers remained unfinished because of financial constraints. After closure during the French Revolution, worship returned in 1792, and the church became a parish again in 1802.

An expansion in 1845 added a columned ambulatory and a chapel behind the altar, inspired by early Christian churches in Rome. The Chapel of the Virgin holds sculptures, paintings of Mary’s life, and a marble Virgin and Child by Charles-François Lebœuf Nanteuil. Emile Hirsch’s stained glass depicts Saints Philip and John, while Théodore Chassériau’s Descent of Christ from the Cross adds a dramatic focal point. Above the nave portal, a Cavaillé-Coll-Mutin organ dates from 1903.

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