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The Lutheran Church of Redemption, located 16 rue Chauchat in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, originates in an old unloading hall built between 1821 and 1825 by architect Adrien-Louis Lusson. This building, originally intended for grant, was replaced in 1837 by a new Jemmappes dock structure. The transformation into a Protestant place of worship began in 1841, when the city of Paris attributed to the Lutheran Consistory, under the leadership of Pastor Rodolphe Cuvier, cousin of naturalist Georges Cuvier.

Between 1841 and 1843, the architect François-Christian Gau, of German origin, remodeled the first four spans of the hall into a church, adding a portal, an apse and a bell tower. After his death, Theodore Ballu completed the work. The building became an emblematic place for the Lutheran community in Paris, especially after the marriage in 1837 of the Protestant Princess Hélène de Mecklenburg-Schwerin with Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans, son of Louis-Philippe, blessed by Pastor Cuvier.

In 1873, architect Victor Baltard built the adjoining presbyteral house. That year Paul Gauguin, then employed in the neighborhood, married Mette-Sophie Gad, a Lutheran Dane. Baron Haussmann, faithful of the church, offered the great crucifix of the communion table, without a crown of thorns, and his funeral was celebrated there in 1891. The organ, by Cavaillé-Coll (1844) and Mutin (1912), has 20 games. The temple was listed for historical monuments in 1958, despite the partial expropriation of 1968 for the expansion of the Drouot Hotel.

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