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Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
The Basilica of the Sacred Heart, perched at the very top of Butte de Montmartre (Montmartre Hill), was built from contributions pledged by Parisian Catholics as an act of contrition after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Construction began in 1873, but the basilica was not consecrated until 1919.
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Église St-Étienne du Mont
The lovely Church of Mount St Stephen, built between 1492 and 1655, contains Paris' only surviving rood screen (1535) separating the chancel from the nave; the rest were removed during the late Renaissance because they prevented the faithful assembled in the nave from seeing the priest celebrate Mass.
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Église St-Germain des Prés
Its spire rising above St-Germain des Prés, this charming Romanesque church is Paris' oldest. Built in the 11th century on the site of an abbey, it was the city's main centre of Catholic worship until it was eclipsed by Notre Dame. It's the (rumoured) resting place of its namesake, Saint Germain (AD 496-576), the first bishop of Paris.
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Église St-Germain l'Auxerrois
Built between the 13th and 16th centuries in a mixture of Gothic and Renaissance styles, this once royal parish church stands on a site, at the eastern end of the Louvre, that has been used for Christian worship since about AD 500. Restored by the Gothic Revivalist architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in the mid-19th century, it boasts some fine stained glass.
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Église St-Sulpice
Until recently, Église St-Sulpice's few visitors were fans of artist Eugène Delacroix, who painted the frescoes in the Chapelle des Stes-Agnes. Then Dan Brown set a murderous scene of The Da Vinci Code here, pivoting around the Rose Line (to the right of the middle of the nave). And yep, it's been mobbed with tourists ever since.
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Mosquée de Paris
Paris' central mosque with its striking minaret was built in 1926 in the ornate Moorish style popular at the time. Visitors must remove their shoes at the entrance to the prayer hall and be modestly dressed. The complex includes a North African-style salon de thé and restaurant, and a hammam , a traditional Turkish bath open to men and women on different days.
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Place de la Madeleine
Ringed by a plethora of fine-food and gourmet shops, the place de la Madeleine is named after the 19th-century neoclassical church in its centre, the Église de la Madeleine. Built in the style of a Greek temple, La Madeleine was consecrated in 1845 after almost a century of design changes and construction delays.
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Sainte-Chapelle
The most exquisite of Paris' Gothic gems, Sainte Chapelle is tucked away within the walls of the Palais de Justice. The chapel is illuminated by a veritable curtain of luminous 13th-century stained glass (the oldest and finest in Paris).
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