The Eglise Saint-Pierre de Montmartre has beautiful stained glass windows. I finally had time to go inside the church for the first time yesterday, with my friend Linda, as we wandered around the Butte with our cameras. If you read her blog, you might eventually see some similar photos to my own.
This caught our eye: the beautiful colors washing across the floor and the votive holder.
Doesn't this look like someone splattered it with multi-colored paints or candle wax? But no, it was just the sunlight coming through the window.
The colorful stained glass reflection in this prayer alcove (perhaps that is a baptismal font?) lit that vase filled with silvery decorative branches, and it positively sparkled!
The stained glass behind the main alter of the church. We really hit it at just the right time on a perfect sunny day (around 1pm) to see how magnificent the stained glass windows really are.
This stunning window portrays Mary, with Sainte Geneviève enveloped in Mary's robes, in turn holding Notre Dame de Paris in her arms. Geneviève is the patroness of the city of Paris; you can also see a 1920's statue of her high atop a pillar on the asymmetrical Pont de la Tournelle, which overlooks Notre Dame on the Left Bank.
Saint-Pierre is located at the top of the Butte Montmartre next to Sacre Coeur; the entrance is around the block opposite the Place du Tertre. There is a very old cemetery there with a small windmill upon which someone was supposedly martyred, but it's only open on Toussaint (November 1st, All Saint's Day).
