A religious building listed as a Historic Monument, the Saint-Louis church of Villemomble, in Seine-Saint-Denis, was erected at the beginning of the 20th century on the remains of a primitive building destroyed in the second half of the 17th century.
Adorned with a stone cross that was once part of an ancient Calvary, it consists of a metal frame and a filling of millstones. Designed by architect Paul Tournon, the steeple in concrete, millstone and brick rises to more than fifty meters in height. A true architectural feat for the time, it is crowned with a sculptural ensemble of around thirty concrete figures seven meters high and taking up the biblical theme of Jacob's ladder.
Inside, large frescoes by Toublanc cover the choir.
