Église Saint-Pierre-Apôtre d'Alfortville

About

Saint-Pierre-Apôtre d'Alfortville is a parish church located in the municipality of Alfortville. It derives its name from the "Île-Saint-Pierre" district: three small fiefs were sold between 1362 and 1387 to the seigneury of Maisons. The first mention of Noes Saint Peter was made in 1441; the word Noue, inherited from Gaulish Nauda meaning "wet meadow", "wet marsh".

In 1663, the archbishop of Paris, Jean-François Paul de Gondi, gathered all these lands under the name of fief Saint Pierre for Roger Robineau. In the 1920s, the parish priest built a chapel. Suspicted by Abbé Lasseyte, a new church was built between 1931 (first stone on July 26) and 1934 by Paul Tournon, who remained unfinished for several years.

It was dominated by a very high cement statue of St Peter the Apostle, the work of sculptor Carlo Sarrabezolles (1888-1971), which was replaced in the 1980s by a bell tower. The church was completely rebuilt by architect Michèle Roblot, and consecrated again in 2009.