Notre-Dame de Clignancourt is named in memory of the village of Clignancourt, lying on the northern outskirts of Paris, near Montmartre. Since the XVI century there was a small chapel of the Holy Trinity, but in 1858 the municipality allowed the construction of a new church a few steps from the old chapel.

Architect Paul Eugene Lex designed the building in the Romanesque style, length 99 meters, can accommodate up to two thousand worshipers. The first stone of the church laid in 1859, the prefect of Paris, Baron Haussmann. Part of the funds allocated for the construction himself Emperor Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie and gave the church furniture and religious objects. The church was consecrated in 1863. Eight years later, the church looted Communards, some of the furniture was gone.

Despite this, the interior of Notre-Dame de Clignancourt today - one of the most remarkable in Paris. The church is decorated with magnificent paintings, stained glass, sculptures. They should take a closer look.

Very good sculpture clinic, "King David with lyre" by Louis Schroeder and "Moses with the tablets' Alfred Adolf Leper. The church also many paintings, two of them, "Nativity of the Blessed Virgin" and "The Most Holy Virgin in the Temple" - brush Nelly Jacquemart, co-founder of the museum Jacquemart-Andre. The choir attention is drawn to the canvas two Roman Kose: "Matthew" and "The Apostle John." The same master painted the main arch, which shows Heavenly Father surrounded by angels and prophets - though quite difficult to see the arches, a bit of light in the church.

But clearly visible paintings, located in the chapel. Chapel of the Sacred Heart in the transept is decorated with four paintings by Michel Dumas - they tell us about the life and martyrdom of the first bishop of Paris Saint Denis. In particular, one of the paintings depicts extraordinarily emotional moment of the execution of the Bishop of the Gentiles - Saint Denis beheaded.

Shrill note martyrdom incessantly ringing in the silence of the half black church. In the corner chapel white marble Pieta literally glows against a background of three extraordinary paintings. On the right falls slain soldier with the banner in hand - the dying eyes he sees in heaven urging him to his holy Joan of Arc. On the left in front of a simple wooden cross kneels widow of the dead man embracing young son. In the center the three already empty the cross of Calvary - the victim was held.

The chapel is dedicated to the memory of hundreds of parishioners who gave their lives in the fields of the First World - their names are engraved on marble slabs. Between the plates - a picture in which the tomb of the risen Christ comes: the victim was held, death is defeated.