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Lucerne
Pauluskirche [St. Paul's Church]

Lucerne's St. Paul's church (1912) was designed by Swiss architect Karl Coelestin Moser, who also created St. Paul's Church in Basel (Neo-Classic/Art Nouveau, 1908) and St. Anthony's Church in Basel (first roughcast concrete church in Switzerland, 1928).

St. Paul's Church was the first modern church in Lucerne after Jesuit Church (1677). While the inhabitants of the first 19th century boomtown district Neustadt had a relatively short distance to the medieval left shore Franciscan Church, inhabitants of the younger Hirschmatt district demanded for their own parish church. So St. Paul's Church replaced an older chapel on the road to Kriens.



St. Paul's Church, Lucerne
St. Paul's Church		 St. Paul's Church, entrance
Entrance
with relief showing St. Paul's conversion

St. Paul's Church, Lucerne, nave and altar
nave and altar		 St. Paul's Church, Lucerne, gallery and organ
gallery and organ
St. Paul's Church is a unique blend of Neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau styles

St. Paul's Church, art nouveau element: sapin
Sapin [fir cone] is an
Art Nouveau design
element developed in
La-Chaux-de-Fonds, center of
Swiss watchmaking industry		 St. Paul's Church, left painting St. Paul's Church, Madonna

St. Paul's Church, left altar
left side altar

 St. Paul's Church, right altar
right side altar
St. Paul's Church, pulpit
 St. Paul's Church, coloured window


How to find St. Paul's Church, Lucerne

junction Obergrundstrasse (highway to Kriens) / Moosmattstrasse
GPS coordinates latitude=47.04231 longitude=8.303046
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