Church of Saint Eustace

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This is a the Church of Saint Eustace, built in the 1500s, and located near the Jardin des Halles. It was modeled after Notre-Dame, which had been finished some two centuries earlier, and it is nearly as large. It has a great pipe organ inside, rebuilt by Dordrecht van den Heuvel of the Netherlands in 1995.

The towers and facade were never finished, and what there was of them was replaced by a dopey-looking neo-Classical facade in 1754. A soup kitchen is operated out of the church in winter, and there are free and paying organ concerts in the church.

You are looking northeast in this photo, taken from the northwestern corner of the Halles gardens.

Saint Eustace is the patron saint of hunters, by the way (he was a hunter before he found religion).

Photographed on July 31, 2000.