Église Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours de Bobigny

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Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours Church is a Catholic church in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis. It is dedicated to Notre-Dame du Bon Secours.

Situation: The church is located at No. 25, rue de Rome, in a pavilion district, south of the City of the Waterworks, in the western part of the commune. This neighborhood was at its construction called New Bobigny or New Village.

It was built on the initiative of Abbé Louis Canet, the new parish priest of Bobigny, who in 1925 acquired a field in the heart of the new village, populated by eight thousand inhabitants and lacking religious presence. It was consecrated as a chapel on 26 February 1928 by Bishop Louis-Ernest Dubois. In the context of the social action competition between the Church and the Communist Party, the municipality had anticlerical chants in front of it on 1 July 1934, during a ceremony called the "red baptism". These "red baptisms" will go so far as to be the subject of acts signed and recorded in municipal archives.

Architecture: The church presents itself as a small pink brick building, whose main facade features three openings...