Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church

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The Protestant church Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune is a Lutheran cult building located in Strasbourg in the French department of Bas-Rhin in the Grand Est region. It is located in Place Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune in the historic centre of the city. It is one of the most remarkable in Strasbourg, in terms of the history of art and architecture.

There are two other Saint-Pierre churches in Strasbourg: the Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux church, which is in fact a set of two churches, one Catholic and the other Protestant, and the Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Catholic church, with the imposing neo-Roman dome, which dates from the late 19th century. The church has been Lutheran since 1524, when Wolfgang Capiton preached the Reformation there. Paul Fagius succeeded him.

In 1682 Louis XIV restored the Catholic parish, the choir was then attributed to Catholics and the nave to Protestants. This attribution to the two cults lasted until 1893 when the church of St. Peter the Young Catholic was built by the Germans.

It was in the baptistery on the right that Blessed Charles de Foucauld was baptized. It was the time when the church was used jointly by Catholics and...