Church of La Madeleine
Church of St. Mary Magdalene | La Madeleine
L’Église Sainte Marie Madeleine – Church of St. Mary Magdalene is a church dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene. Located near the Place de la Concorde and the Place Vendome in Paris, this church offers daily masses, concerts and elegant weddings.
I couldn’t appreciate much the exterior design of this church, except the sculptured relief of the Last Judgment by Lé Maire in the pediment. The reason for it’s simplicity, maybe, because it was based on the design of an antique (Roman) temple. After two false starts, the building was finally built in 1806 and consecrated as a church in 1842.
The busiest and perhaps the most crowded place on this Season of Lent is the church. Christians all over the world are commemorating the passion of Christ. And the most significant day of the season is the Resurrection where people jubilantly sing songs of praises to the Lord. It was said that Mary Magdalene was the first person to witness that Jesus had risen from the dead.
HAPPY EASTER TO Y’ ALL!
Egg hunting begins!
Filed in: Travel Journal
About the Author (Author Profile)
Marlene is a teacher by profession holding a degree of Bachelor of Secondary Education. She works as a Mother Language Teacher in Sweden. She is a Filipina married to a Swede. She has been blogging since 2007 and she and her hubby own quite a number of websites. Connect with Marlene on Google+Subscribe
If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to receive more just like it.
Comments (12)
Trackback URL | Comments RSS Feed
Sites That Link to this Post
- Pages tagged "weddings" | 12 April 2009
May you also have a blessed Easter Len. Parang minisipyo yang Church nayan ah hehehe.
Joy’s last blog post..Square Toys
I mean Munisipyo..ano bayun bungal!
Joy’s last blog post..Square Toys
Oo nga, ano, hehee! Sa tingin ko rin parang temple sa kapanahunan ni Jesus.
OO nga mukhang munisipyo o government offices, hindi mukhang simbahan, kakaiba ito sa usual churches na nakikita natin ngayon.
Happy Easter!
Amor’s last blog post..Where to Stay in Baguio?
Happy Easter to you too.May you have a blessed Easter Sunday with your family.:))
Visiting from WW. Happy Easter!
Mem’s last blog post..Wordless Wednesday 2009 – #5
Happy Easter to you and all your readers
Shanker Bakshi’s last blog post..Special Discount on OIO Publisher Plugin For You
Happy easter to you
paco’s last blog post..Insert image in gmail messages
what a great building. i hope it’s not left abandoned like many churches in England.
Saint, fortunately, this building is still active as a church.
i love the architecture of this building. Happy Easter!
liferamblings’s last blog post..Ruby Tuesday – My nephew’s Birthday