Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-la-Salle

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The church Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle is a Catholic church located in the Necker district of the 15th arrondissement of Paris, dedicated to Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, founder in the 18th century of the Brothers of Christian Schools and patron saint of educators. It has an entrance to Rue du Droit-Roux, as well as Rue Falguière. The church was built in 1909 on the site of the abandoned buildings of the Guillout biscuits.

The stained glass windows trace the life of Jean-Baptiste de La Salle are by Jacques-Charles Champigneulle, master glassmaker, son of Charles Champigneulle. The left windows are from Marguerite Huré and date back to the 1930s. The mosaic of the apse evokes the works of the Brothers of the Christian Schools; It was designed and created in 1935 by Jean Gaudin (carton by Marcel Imbs, 1882-1935).

The church houses a monument to the dead in memory of the parishioners who died for the homeland during the Great War, a monument built according to a decision of the parish priest, Abbé Cosson, and blessed on December 18, 1921 by Roland-Gosselin, auxiliary bishop of Paris. The old crypt was transformed in 1922 into a small oratory called Notre-Dame-des-Passants and located on the ground floor...