Paris Saint-Augustin Church, Paris
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Opéra, Galeries Lafayette & Nearby Museums
6 attractions · 10h 43min · transit route
Tickets ~€56
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About Paris Saint-Augustin Church
Église Saint-Augustin is a 19th-century Catholic church in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, built between 1860 and 1871 by architect Victor Baltard, who also designed the former Les Halles market. The church was commissioned under Napoleon III as part of Baron Haussmann's renovation of Paris, positioned at the convergence of several new boulevards. Its most striking feature is the visible cast-iron skeleton supporting the structure — the first large-scale use of this technique in a Parisian church, eliminating the need for exterior flying buttresses.
Paris Saint-Augustin Church — Planning Your Visit
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The church's walls are remarkably thin for a building of this size because the cast-iron frame carries all the structural weight. Traditional stone churches of comparable dimensions require walls several meters thick and massive flying buttresses — Saint-Augustin has neither, making it an early example of metal-frame architecture applied to religious buildings.
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