The Ingres museum (former Episcopal Palace)
From the base of the church of Saint-James one can see the Ingres museum built from 1664 to 1670 to serve as a residence for the bishop.
The Church of saint James
It was built in the 13th century (about one century after the city was founded) and the choir was enlarged around 1500.
The Bar or the Steward Private Mansion
On part of this site stood the castle of the counts of Toulouse, which they had reserved in the act of the fondation of the city in 1144, and then...
Rooster Square
The Place du Coq retains the memories of the Grande-Boucherie Temple and of the New Temple.
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.
Walk in the Protestant Montauban
The conditions of foundation of the city, in 1144, by Alphonse Jourdain, Count of Toulouse, the rights granted by a particularly liberal charter for the time, the fact of being...
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...
Walk in the Nantes protestant
A protestant tour in the city of Nantes: discover 11 emblematic places of the presence of Protestants in the city of Nantes.
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...