Église Saint-Éloi

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The Protestant temple Saint-Éloi de Rouen is a religious building located in Place du Pasteur-Martin-Luther-King in Rouen. Former Catholic church from 1228 to the Revolution, she was assigned to the Reformed Church in 1803. The parish is now a member of the United Protestant Church of France.

It was originally a chapel on an island, joined to the land of the dukes of Normandy. It becomes parish when the neighborhood was built. A church began on July 5, 1228. It depended on the chapter of Notre-Dame de Rouen Cathedral. The church, rebuilt in the early 16th century, was looted by the Huguenots on March 8, 1563. In 1580, the building was completed, with the tower and rose on the main gate. Work was undertaken at the beginning of the 18th century by architect Jean-Jacques Martinet.

In 1791, during the French Revolution, the church was expropriated and disused. It is transformed into a feed shop and then into a hunting lead factory because of the presence of its bell tower. Protestants obtain freedom of worship with the Declaration of Rights...