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Origin and history

The church of Sainte-Thérèse-d'Avila-et-Sainte-Monique stands in Châtenay-Malabry, in the Hauts-de-Seine, on a site once occupied by a wooden chapel dedicated to Saint Madeleine. This chapel served the city of Red Butt, a district that gradually changed between 1949 and 1965 with the addition of large-scale collective buildings, reflecting the growing urbanization of the Paris region after the Second World War.

The construction of the present church is part of this urban expansion. It was established as a parish on 18 January 1955 and solemnly blessed on 1 May 1955 by Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris. This project met the growing need for a place of worship for the inhabitants of the changing garden city, thus marking the adaptation of the Catholic Church to the demographic and social changes of the time.

Architecturally, the church became part of the landscape of the great ensembles of the 1950s-1960s, when the reconstruction and modernization of the Parisian suburbs was in full swing. Although the source text does not specify its style, its history reflects the pastoral and urban challenges of that time, where parishes had to adapt to changing populations and neighbourhoods undergoing restructuring.

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