49, Paris, Our Lady of Fatima. Portuguese church in Paris
This is a church you see
from the outside as you ride past on the tram, and I have been wanting to visit
it ever since the first time I saw it, which must have been when that new
tramway opened just over ten years ago. It is a 1950s church and the brickwork
is very pretty. When I finally decided to go visit it, it was night time, so
you don’t get the full effect. Inside, the stations of the cross in metal
relief were interesting, there was a crib, too. Everything seems to happen in
Portuguese, and when I visited on a Saturday evening, I could hear rosaries
being declaimed in portuguese. It seems it is the church of the Portuguese
community of the Paris area.
Full story of that Fatima
gal here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_F%C3%A1tima
And in Portuguese here:
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nossa_Senhora_de_F%C3%A1tima
And in Kiswahili here https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikira_Maria_wa_Fatima