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What do you think? I am not sure I like it (well I like the under structure but not the white wavy/weave awning thing). http://arch-group.org/portfolio/arx/0/#0Apparently Pres.Sarkozy and Pres. Medvedev approved it, but the Mayor of Paris is furious.
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It looks like the Church is lifting her skirts! 
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yersssss - well- ummmm - it's different
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The rendering of the gardens under that canopy looks nice, but the rest of it begs the question... why?!
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Hagia Sophia in Kyiv covered with a tablecloth.
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Hagia Sophia in Kyiv covered with a tablecloth. LOL! That was very funny, Stuart!  I didn't know that you had it in you! 
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Right Alice, I cannot for the life of me believe this Project won international architectural competition, totally strange considering the Russian church in Nice (constructed in 1912, St. Nicholas) really takes it hands down in my humble opinion and has quite a colorful history attached to it. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/La_Cathedrale_Orthodoxe_Russe_Saint-Nicolas.jpgTo each his own as they say.
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Here is one more Alice, the Church of St. Alexander Nevski in Paris, this is the church all the Royalty and others who fled the Bolehvick revolution ended up at mostly, Paris had a sizable community after the revolution, the church is under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and was constructed in 1861. A ton of royality walked through these doors thats for sure and opposite the Cathedral (Raised to this status in 1922) there is Russian restaurant, À la Ville de Petrograd, used to host such Russian notables as Stravinsky, Diaghilev and Nabokov. A bit of history long gone and never to be seen again. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Cathedrale-A--Nevski-Paris-.jpg
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Here is one more Alice, the Church of St. Alexander Nevski in Paris, this is the church all the Royalty and others who fled the Bolehvick revolution ended up at mostly, Paris had a sizable community after the revolution, the church is under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and was constructed in 1861. A ton of royality walked through these doors thats for sure and opposite the Cathedral (Raised to this status in 1922) there is Russian restaurant, À la Ville de Petrograd, used to host such Russian notables as Stravinsky, Diaghilev and Nabokov. A bit of history long gone and never to be seen again. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Cathedrale-A--Nevski-Paris-.jpgWow, this one is stunningly beautiful! 
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Are there not already two Russian Orthodox cathedrals in Paris, one for ROCOR, the other for the Patriarchal Church? St. Alexander Nevsky may be small and a bit threadbare, but it's very beautiful and deserves a full restoration before money is sunk into a new temple.
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Dear StuartK Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky Cathedral built in 1861 and which was the magnet for those royality and others fleeing the revolution (and yes, it really does need some exterior remodleing, look at its interior http://travelwithterry.blogspot.com/2008/06/cathdrale-st-alexander-nevsky.htmlUnder the EP And...last but not least All Saints of Russia Church (Synod/ROCOR), Paris: All Saints of Russia Church, 19 rue Claude Lorrain, 75016 Paris, France But, in total, I see it appears there are three ROCOR parishes One in the 13th arrondissement, 16th arrondissemont and one in Meudon (suburb). I would have to check further, these could be mission type churches, not positive. With all these parishes, which I am sure probably follow traditional patterns, why they sunk money into that church by the Effile Tower in Paris is beyond me when they have these other beautiful churches already standing but, in desperate need of repairs.
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I have to say that it most resembles some futuristic structure such as one usually sees at World Fairs and other such venues. It may have won design competitions, but those who vote in such obviously do not include students of historic Eastern church architecture. As to the underlying structure, I can't say that I'm much more impressed. It has a look of porcelain plumbing about it.
Frankly, overall, it is a reminder that it is significantly more important what transpires inside God's temples than it is what such offer as an exterior visual appearance.
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Saint-Alexandre-Nevsky Cathedral built in 1861 and which was the magnet for those royality and others fleeing the revolution (and yes, it really does need some exterior remodleing, look at its interior I was actually there, fairly recently. The interior is indeed glorious, but in need of cleaning and refurbishing. The carpeting is quite worn, the icons are encrusted with decades of soot, which also rises up the columns from the lampadas. A lot of the woodwork and gilding is worn from the touch of generations of worshipers. It's a treasure, and should be preserved. Regarding the other churches, there were, last year, two real parishes in addition to missions, in metropolitan Paris. It's a big place, and the Russian/Slavic community is growing, but I think it would be better to develop more local parishes than to throw money into one huge showpiece.
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Stuart, I agree with you and yes, it is a bit worn and in need of a good "shalacking" as my baba used to say, I dont understand why these churches are left in such conditions, (possibly it is some type of society custom, I have seen this in other churches where the attention is not on the interior/exterior, I have seen it first hand in Europe and in America in these jurisdictions)
I totally agree however, why throw good money to bad on this new structure in Paris (I dont blame the Mayor of Paris for being upset, I agree with him), when you have other parishes serving the needs of their members, it seems quite foolish to implement this new project but possibly the idea is to make some type of unspoken statement, in my opinion its just a pity and very foolhardy.
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