Temple Neuf | |||||||||
Native Name: | Neue evangelische Kirche | ||||||||
Native Name Lang: | de | ||||||||
Coordinates: | 49.1206°N 6.1719°W | ||||||||
Location: | Place de la Comédie, Metz | ||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||
Denomination: | Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine | ||||||||
Status: | Active | ||||||||
Architect: | Conrad Wahn | ||||||||
Style: | Romanesque Revival architecture | ||||||||
Years Built: | 1901–1904 | ||||||||
Capacity: | 1,200 | ||||||||
Dome Quantity: | 1 | ||||||||
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Temple Neuf (pronounced as /fr/, meaning "New Temple") is a Protestant church in Metz, France. It is located on place de la Comédie (next to Opéra-Théâtre), at the center of the Jardin d'Amour on the southwestern edge of Île du Petit-Saulcy, which is surrounded by the Moselle.
The church was built by Glod, with the first stone being laid on 25 November 1901 (when Metz was a part of the German Empire), following plans by architect Conrad Wahn.[1] It was inaugurated as the Neue evangelische Kirche on 14 May 1904 in the presence of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and his wife Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.[2] The church is an example of Romanesque Revival architecture,[2] and has been a monument historique of France since 1930.