Notre Dame of Pentecost is a house of Église Diocèse of Nanterre located in the district of businesses of Defense, in the Hauts-de-Seine in western suburbs of Paris.

It is not a Paroisse strictly speaking, but a place of Church, where Christian can go since their work, to deepen to them Foi.

The construction of this House of Church was wanted by Monseigneur François Favreau, bishop of Nanterre.

Notre Dame of Pentecost opened her doors in January 2001, at the beginning of.

Structure

The architecture of Notre-Dame of Pentecost is particular. It seems to be conceived to be integrated in the site, because its general form is primarily cubic, and one did not adopt the usual plan in cross of the majority of the churches of.

The house of Church is announced by a discrete cross to the accesses of the entry.

Initially, its orientation is not that of the majority of the churches of the thousand-year-old IIe, which in general were directed towards the Is.

In the second place, the material employed for the carcass work heavy castings is the Béton, which is not an innovation for the churches of the 20th century, which started to comprise this type of material.

Lastly, the house of Church is composed of three levels, from top to bottom:

• the Vault, which one reaches by a staircase, with benches out of wooden for the faithful ones; the light thus comes from the Northern /North-eastern, but like the whole on the northern side is out of glass (opaque), that gives a satisfactory luminosity, for the furnace bridge, to which that of lightings is added. It should be noted that the Ambon place the priest for the Gospel and the homélie, and the people who make the first reading, the reading of the Psaume, and the second reading, in the middle of the faithful ones, in a direction opposed to that it has taking again at the time of the Consécration an old provision of the churches of.
• the level of rez-of roadway is a reception, where a Librairie is installed (appendix of the bookstore Gets it for Paris VIe),
• the basement is composed of a Restaurant and a Cuisine as well as meeting rooms.

Activities

The activities include:

• of the teams of catholic action,
• of the teams of reflection: divide on the faith, the Gospel S, the solidarity, the new technologies of information, the ethical , the movement of the Christian executives, etc
• the Sustainable development, how to integrate a step of this type in the Entreprise S, and which are the principal features: Perception of the environment, factors cultural, relations with the Recipients, aspects ethical S and legal, role of the Institution S and the Administration S, application to the companies with the Responsibility sociétale for the companies, new types of Day before in company: sociétale and environmental;
• the Liturgy,
• a workshop of song specialized in the Gospel,
• of the exposures in connection with the Culture: Art (Painting, Sculpture), or other topics diretement related to the life of the companies,
• in the concerts of Music,
• of the forums.