Pastor Constans’s house
Jean Constans came from a family of lawyers and pastors, descended from Constans – one of the five Moustier men. He was a wealthy land owner, and himself a pastor,...
The Carmes Temple
The Carmes settled in Montauban in the 13th century, between the Tescou and the city walls, i.e. outside the city.
The Consul Dupuy’s Alley
This promenade, which has become a parking lot, extends over the site of bastions built by the Montalbanais in front of the medieval enclosure which they had to dismantle during...
The England Street
The new religion asserted itself thanks to Bernard Colom, a young man of Montauban.
Jacques Maury (1920-2020)
Le pasteur Jacques Maury (1920-2020) a exercé de nombreuses responsabilités dans les instances paroissiales, associatives, institutionnelles, du protestantisme français, ainsi que dans celles de l’œcuménisme. Il a, par ses capacités...
The old Paradise temple of Lyon
The paradise temple, destroyed in 1567, is an emblematic building of the 16th century reformation. It is one of the principal temples of this time and one of the rare...
The United Protestant Church of France– Lutheran and Reformed Communion
After failed attempts to establish unity between Lutherans and Reformed at the time of the Reformation, the united Churches were created in Germany after 1717. In 1973, the Leuenberg Agreement...
Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille (1900-1976)
The pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille (1900-1976), was greatly marked by the first World War and the creation of Czechoslovakia, campaigned for friendship between the nations. When the Second World War erupted...
The Hottinguer family
The Hottinguer family was from Zurich, and gave birth to a line of Protestant pastors, intellectuals and bankers. In the 18th century two branches stood out, one of pastors and...
John Wesley (1703-1791), fondateur du méthodisme
Wesley est sans doute l’une des figures les plus marquantes du protestantisme. Pasteur anglican formé à l’université d’Oxford, il est issu de ce mélange singulier d’anglicanisme, de dissidence et de...
Lyon, the short-lived capital of Protestantism (1562-1563)
During the first war of religion, Lyon was the intellectual and political capital of French Protestantism (1562-1563). The history of Protestant domination, then its ebbing and finally its failure, was...
The Church of Saint Paul
The Church os Saint Paul was built between 1892 and 1897 by the architect Ludwig Müller in the neo-Gothic style for the Imperial German garrison. It is one of outstanding...
The deaconesses
In 1873, the deaconesses clinic was built by the architect Emile Salomon, and was then located in the Finkwiller quarter next to the civil hospitals compound.
The Stift
The Stift – from the German verb ‘stiften’: to make a donation – is one of the oldest student residences in Strasbourg.
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame
The Cathedral was dedicated to Protestant worshipping from 1529 to 1681, except between 1550 and 1560.
The Church of Saint Aurelia
The Church of Saint Aurelia was already mentioned in the Carolingian era.
The Church of Saint Magdalene
The Church of Saint Magdalene was built in 1748 and Jean Geiler de Kaysersberg preached here.
The Church of Saint Nicolas
In the Autumn of 1538 Jean Calvin started preaching in Strasbourg at the Church of Saint Nicolas.
The Church of Saint William
The Church of Saint William and its adjoining convent were erected between 1298 and 1307 for hermit monks on the initiative of Knight Henri de Müllenheim.