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Saint Éloi

3, place Maurice-de-Fontenay, 75012 Paris

1910 - Mutin

1970 - Schwenkedel

2004 - Swiderski

II/23 (15) - mechanical traction - stoplist

Photo: Jeroen de Haan
The church In 1856, a first church dedicated to Saint Éloi was erected in the Reuilly district. A second church, with a wooden ceiling, succeeded it in 1880. It was to be provisional but lasted until the construction of the current church, consecrated in 1968. The architect Marc Leboucher uses metal as a symbol of Saint Éloi, patron saint of goldsmiths and metallurgists. The organ The instrument was built between 1967 and 1970 by Kurt Schwenkedel of Strasbourg- Koenigshoffen. The latter reused much of the sound material of the previous instrument that had been built by Mutin in 1910, for the old church (re-harmonized by the Steinmetz brothers). Following the great heat wave of the summer of 2003, the organ was restored by Swidersky.
The organs of Paris

Saint Éloi

3, place Maurice-de-Fontenay, 75012 Paris

1910 - Mutin

1970 - Schwenkedel

2004 - Swiderski

II/23 (15) - mechanical traction - stoplist

Photo: Jeroen de Haan
ORGANS OF PARIS © 2023 Vincent Hildebrandt ALL ORGANS
The church In 1856, a first church dedicated to Saint Éloi was erected in the Reuilly district. A second church, with a wooden ceiling, succeeded it in 1880. It was to be provisional but lasted until the construction of the current church, consecrated in 1968. The architect Marc Leboucher uses metal as a symbol of Saint Éloi, patron saint of goldsmiths and metallurgists. The organ The instrument was built between 1967 and 1970 by Kurt Schwenkedel of Strasbourg-Koenigshoffen. The latter reused much of the sound material of the previous instrument that had been built by Mutin in 1910, for the old church (re-harmonized by the Steinmetz brothers). Following the great heat wave of the summer of 2003, the organ was restored by Swidersky.