Marseille 9th - Church of the Pauline (Sainte-Emilie de Vialar)
- department: Bouches-du-Rhône
- municipality: Marseille
- naming: Church of the Pauline (Sainte-Emilie de Vialar)
- address: 58 boulevard Romain Rolland
- Author: Pierre AVEROUS (architect)
- date: 1961
- protection: unprotected building
- label patrimoine XXe: Commission régionale du patrimoine et des sites (CRPS) of 28 November 2000
"At the centre of a social housing project in the eastern districts of Marseille, architect Pierre Averous has built two facilities, one secular and the other religious. The first is a youth house with a library, games rooms, workshops, etc. The second is a church with its outbuildings. The common feature of these two buildings is their architectural style which, far from playing with dissociation, chooses brutalism as the common project doctrine.
From a large walk crossed by a plane tree, access to the church is through a low entrance porch. On the rough concrete tympanum, a religious thought is written in negative. On either side of this tympanum, two vertical openings let a razor light filter through the inside of the building. A copper roof with wide overhangs follows the diamond profile of the eardrum. Lifted off the façade, it is also a source of light for the interior of the nave. Nearby is the bell tower, an elegant hollowed-out block, built of concrete, with its transparent cross on one side."
- Source: Jacques Sbriglio, Guides d'architecture, Marseille 1945-1993, Marseille, Parentheses, 1993, p. 109
Read also in Heritage of the 20th century, the study Marseille, ensembles and residences from 1955/1975, La Pauline
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