The most beautiful temples to visit Châteaux de la Loire

The Protestant Temple is remarkable for its architecture. Anyone who passes through the streets of Burgundy cannot miss him and remain indifferent to him. It is the work of the architect Orléanais François Narcisse Pagot, and was built at the site of the former church Saint-Pierre-Empont, to be inaugurated on 2 May 1839. It is a building of circular central plane, formerly covered by a dome. This rotunda has a diameter of 14,80 m. It opens with a portail ion order portal. The whole is crowned with ionic entablature, decorated with triglyphes and métopes, the latter decorated with rayons à. The interior design is mainly designed in wood and has an organ installed at the opening of the Temple but completely replaced in 1964. The Temple is classified Historic Monuments. Website: www.erf-orleans.org