Oratoire du Louvre

About

The Protestant temple of the Louvre Oratory is a place of worship located 145 rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It is a former Catholic church, seat of the Congregation of the Oratory of France, raised by Louis XIII as royal chapel of the Louvre Palace in 1624. Disused of the French Revolution, it became in 1811 under Napoleon I the seat of the Reformed Consistory of Paris. The parish is a member of the United Protestant Church of France, committed to social Christianity and liberal theology.