PROTESTANT TEMPLE OF ORLEANS

Passing through the Rue de Bourgogne, you will surely see this strange building sitting in the middle of a small square next to a statue of Jean Calvin. The work of Pastor Rosseloty and the architect Orléanais François-Narcisse Pagot stands in the heart of the old centre since 1839, at the location of the former church Saint-Pierre-Empont itself destroyed in 1830. This amazing building presents a circular central plane about 15 metres in diameter and is entirely constructed in stone on the model of the temples of antiquity. Originally surmounted by a zinc dome, it was finally rebuilt after its collapse in 1912.