David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

When folks go to Paris, France, whether they use "canned" tours or do it on their own, most of them only see 3 churches: Notre Dame Cathedral; Sainte-Chapelle; and the Sacred Heart Basilica of Montmartre (Sacre-Coeur). Notre Dame and Sainte-Chapelle are located near each other on the Ile de la Cité and Sacre-Coeur is somewhat farther afield (but worth it). Paris, however, has many other churches that are fully deserving of a visitation, and (being a "church person") I often attempt to find and enter some of the lesser-known ones when I tour. This photo essay will cover the Church of Saint Severin, which is located a gentle walk from the Ile de la Cité, and very lovely inside.

This is what it looks like from the street

DSC_0944-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

And once inside, this is what greets your eyes

DSC_1031-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

This is a closer view of the Main Organ at the rear

DSC_1053-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

From the rear, looking toward the Altar

DSC_1044-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

And here is a closer view of the Chancel

DSC_1056-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

Besides the big Main Organ, there is a smaller one in the Choir

DSC_1060-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

However, the real beauty of this church is its stained glass windows. I photographed most of them and I'm going to show all I took

DSC_1032-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1034-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1035-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1036-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1037-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1038-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1039-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1040-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1041-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1042-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1043-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1046-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1047-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1048-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1049-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1050-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1051-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1052-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1057-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

DSC_1059-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

And the Cloisters

DSC_1066-2.jpg by David Casteel, on Flickr

And now I hope that some of you will consider looking up and visiting this lovely church when you tour in Paris, France.

CAS1951 Loc: San Diego

Phenomenal shots! Thank you!!!

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I appreciate the compliment! This was my first attempt at a posting here (other than a couple of responses to others) and I was hoping it would be well received.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

They are very nice pics. You may get some comments that they should be posted in either the photo gallery or the Christian photography section, and you may find that the post gets moved to another section. Worth reading the forum rules for future reference...

Anyhow. Nicely done.

Did you get any of the Grande Mosque de Paris? That's pretty impressive also....

I think this picture is from Eric Parker

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

Beautiful series.
The "Photo Gallery" is a good forum section to share photographs.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Makes me want to back again sooner!
Nice series.

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I will keep that in mind. I didn't see a "Christian photography" section.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

If you go to the home page, and look for all sections you'll find many more things. Possibly to your taste, possibly not. Anyhow. Very nice work, and a pleasure to look at.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

Here is a link to the "Christian Photography" forum section. http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-111-1.html
If you scroll to the bottom of any page you will find an "All Sections" Link. This will take you to all the forum sections available on UHH.

rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

Beautiful photographs, David!
Exceptionally nice from the standpoint of architecture and lighting.
Enjoyed looking at them.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Nice photography, great first post! and since you numbered it I hope that there will be more. I agree, Paris has hundreds of churches worth visiting and St. Severin is definitely one of them that I also like.

I used to live in Paris (in the 60's) and we return practically every year for a few weeks to a month and take an apartment away from the maddening crowds. One of the "other big ones" would be the old Saint Germain des Pres, or the nearby Saint Sulpice near the Palais de Luxembourg more. Others that come to my mind are the beautiful Saint Etienne du Mont behind the Pantheon, the Saint Augustin church on Blvd Malesherbes, the Saint Jean de Montmartre on Rue des Abesses and my darling, the tiny Syrian-Catholic church Saint Ephreme on Rue des Carmes close to the Sorbonne. Close to the St. Severin is also the small church of Saint Julien le Pauvre. In these last two churches, and many more, you can often hear soloists or chamber music concerts for a resasonable amount and on short notice.

Thanks for that wonderful series of pictures - I am looking forward to see which other churches you will present!

Old Timer Loc: Greenfield, In.

A extra good set. I marvel at the skill that all the craftsmen they had to build such beautiful building. Just think these we were built before modern tools and scaffolding and cranes and power lifts were available.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

That's what amazes me. Awesome workmanship.

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

Some years ago I did briefly visit Saint-Sulpice but I didn't get many usable photos at that time. In 2015 (when I went to Saint-Severin) there was to be an organ recital in the evening and I was able to listen to several of the recitalists practicing when I was inside. The only other "lesser" church I had time for on that trip was Saint Ambroise, about 1/2 mile (1 km) south of Place de la République. I did get some nice (I think) photos there and will make a post using them soon. Almost all my travels are programmed tours, so my "free" time for church crawling is always limited.

This web site is very new to me. When I return from my travels I spend considerable time post-processing my photos and uploading them to Flickr®; I then spend even more time doing web research to identify what the photos are (I succeed for about 70% of them)--I have a little I-gotU GPS logger I carry and it makes it possible to locate where I was (fairly well) when a photo was taken, and that does help. You may have noticed that I'm posting directly from Flickr®, which has several advantages: anyone who is interested may click on the link and get to the photo posted there, which has my Description and all the EXIF data, as well as location (for many of them). My post-processor (Lightroom®) also has the ability to easily upload my photos to Flickr® already organized into Albums, which makes my work to organize the photos a lot easier. (I really like the hierarchical structure of Flickr®.) I suspect I will continue to use Flickr® as my primary repository and display medium, but I'll post some photos here from time to time.

weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA

Hi David - I follow a similar mode, but store my pictures on Google Photo and have a website where I provide a list of albums that are then linked to Google Photos. Like you, I spend a lot of time on the postprocessing also in Lightroom and sometimes even more time on researching the subjects that I have photographed - it is a lot of effort, but I find that I know much more about the places I visited after I worked on the pictures and assembled the information, which of course goes into the metafile data so it can be accessed when looking at my albums. All that time needed, besides the constant further travel activity, puts me far behind in my picture processing, I just finished a set of albums of a trip to Iran, which was an addition to a trip to Central Asia (the 'Stans) and I am posting them at the moment is small segments to UHH. You can have a look at them, or access my webpage (it is listed in my profile) for an idea how I work it.