150 Churches in Paris and elsewhere

  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

The church of the patron saint of coin collectors... This church was recommended to me by my friend Guillaume – I must start taking requests, so if you have a church you want me to visit, let me know ( John dot mullen AT WANADOO dot FR). It was hard to find the entrance, and in my confusion I forgot to take a picture of the 90 foot high metal bell tower. The Saint Eloi church (the gentleman is sometimes known in English as St Eligius) was started in 1968 and is very modern. So modern that there isn’t even a wikipedia article in English on it – because church lovers generally feel more at home with ancient mystery and stuff. St Eloi is a metal structure covered in sheets of aluminium. Inside is rather austere : the stations of the cross merely Roman numerals, practically no statues. There is one statue though from the 1930s, which was made for the great 1937 exhibition, which shows St Eloi with a hammer and other tools for carpentry. The church is set among what look like so...