Saint-François de Molitor

Saint-François de Molitor (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.fʁɑ̃.swa d(ə) mɔ.li.tɔʁ]) is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Auteuil-Molitor quarter of the 16th arrondissement of Paris.

His predecessor, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger had brought the project to fruition in accord with the Vatican II guidelines (1962 – 1965) for new places of worship, as he did for other Parisian churches built during his tenure.

It is slightly higher than the façade and on the same alignment, which is a difference from other new churches in Paris such as Notre-Dame-de-l'Arche-d'Alliance in the 15th arrondissement and Notre-Dame de la Sagesse in the 13th.

At the base of the bell tower there is a monumental sculpture of a young, dynamic St Francis of Assisi by Alain Courtaigne.

Dismantled and restored by Christophe Cailleux, many modifications were necessary to adapt it to the church of St François de Molitor (interior layout, wind circuit, replacement of mechanical traction by electric traction, the addition of stops, the rearrangement on the windchests).The console located on the tribune to the left of the organ, is an old Allen console, adapted by Christophe Cailleux who equipped it with an electronic combinator with 4096 combinations.

Its south-north orientation and elliptical form, by architects Corinne Callies and Jean-Marie Duthilleul, has 420 seating places; it is reminiscent of a barque, the symbol of evangelism.