Église des Saints-Archanges

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The Romanian Orthodox Cathedral of Saints Archangels located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France, at no 9bis of rue Jean-de-Beauvais. Since 2009, it has been a cathedral and is the seat of the western and southern European metropolis of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

History: It was built from 1375 to 1379 by the architect Raymond du Temple for the college of Dormans of the former University of Paris, and was then named after Saint John the Evangelist. It is the only chapel of the Middle Ages still in the neighborhood. After the abolition of the college during the Revolution, its buildings served as a meeting place for the revolutionary section of the Panthéon, a seat of the 12th municipality of Paris, barracks from 1801 to 1855 and a Dominican convent from 1868. The chapel is saved from destruction thanks to historian Jules Quicherat. The building was purchased by Romania in September 1882 and was the object of ten years (1882-1892) of work to restore and adapt it to the Romanian Orthodox rite and consecrated in 1892. In 1971, the writer Virgil Gheorghiu became...