Église Saint-François d'Assise
11 rue des Sinsignottes, 57463 Metz
A neighborhood was born in the 1950s in the heart of a historic site of a rare vegetal luxuriance: Bellecroix.
With him, a place of spirituality emerged in unison with this nature, placed under the patronage of a man close to the concept now called ecology: Saint Francis of Assisi, whose choir is adorned by a sculpture. Designed by Robert Ochs, the church does not display a disheveling architecture, neither warheads nor semicircular, but appears as the functional setting of a warm space made for meditation. It has in fact not stopped evolving, a little like a modular game.
Originally (1959), it was a temporary chapel, the future work room of a more ambitious building that had since been set aside. But, over time, until the recent bell tower, it became rich in sobriety, enclosing the brilliance within it. There reigns an atmosphere of intimacy, without aggressive luxury, made of the marriage of lights. That of the day comes through the vegetation crossing glass doors all along the nave.
©Dorothée Rachula
