Guided tour: «Sainte-Thérèse, an avant-garde church»

Name: Guided tour: «Sainte-Thérèse, an avant-garde church»
Start: 2022-09-17T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Eglise Sainte-Thérèse

Let yourself be guided in a church of the first half of the 20th century, a true avant-garde building for the time.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 14:30Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

©Conseil de Fabrique Sainte-Thérèse Metz

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About the location

Eglise Sainte-Thérèse

31 rue de Verdun, 57000 Metz

Moselle
Grand Est

The church of Sainte-Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus, with the evocative nickname "Notre-Dame-du-Béton", was built between 1938 and 1954 in the heart of the New City. It is an avant-garde building designed as a symbol of Metz. Its architecture due to the architect Roger-Henri Expert is remarkable for its concrete design that renews the sacred architecture. It also shows a series of stained glass windows on a surface of 1600 m² of a unique design (double glass surface on a double cement mesh) and exceptional homogeneity, masterpiece of the Moselle painter Nicolas Untersteller. Its concrete silhouette and its 70-metre spire rise in the city landscape, making this church a construction with modern and unique architecture.