The Church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont stands on Mount St. Genevieve, near the Pantheon. Until the French Revolution in these places was the abbey of St. Genevieve. It was one of the largest monasteries in Paris, founded more Clovis and his wife Clotilde (V -VI century). The population of the surrounding neighborhoods grew, the congregation became more and more (in particular, at the expense of students nearby Sorbonne), and in 1222, Pope Honorius III blessed the construction of the parish church of St. Stephen. By the end of the XV century, however, the church has proved too narrow for the parishioners. In 1492, the abbey has allocated land on Mount St. Genevieve by a bigger temple. Construction of the church lasted updated more than a century, in the years 1622-1626 was completed its facade, and the building was consecrated Archbishop of Paris Jean-Francois de Gondi.

Above the gates of the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont placed a relief depicting the death of the Protomartyr, the apostle from seventy St. Stephen. Jerusalem Deacon Stephen was preaching the word of God was tried and executed by stoning. Sveti Stefan still revered in Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

The church is huge: the length of the nave - 69 meters, width - about 30. The interior - with magnificent stained glass windows, the finest stone lace curtain galleries and staircases, sculptures and lots of lovely carved pulpit. Parisians loved temple here often brought the relics of patron saint of Paris Saint Genevieve.

The revolution, however, has made Saint-Etienne-du-Mont in the "temple of filial piety." The relics of the patron saint of Paris thrown down the drain, sculpture overturned and smashed. The church was consecrated again only in 1801, when Napoleon III and it was restored and reconstructed sculptural decoration.

In Saint-Etienne-du-Mont installed ornate cancer that holds the relics of Saint Genevieve. Here lie the remains of Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine, is buried in the local cemetery Marat.

In 1997 here during his visit to Paris on the occasion of the World Day of Youth served Holy Mass, Pope John Paul II.