Temple protestant (Moussac)
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The Temple protestant (German: Evangelical Church) is a church building of the United Protestant Church of France in Moussac in the Gard department ( Occitania region ). The church has been classified as a monument historique since 1977 .
history
The church was built in the 12th century in the Romanesque style as a single-nave hall church of three bays with a semicircular apse as a choir closure directly below the castle of the bishops of Uzès , as their chapel it should have served. In the 16th century, in the course of the Reformation , the Reformed church service was introduced. As a result of the Edict of Nantes , the church was given back to the Catholics, while the Reformed could build their own church in town. This in turn was destroyed after the edict was repealed in 1685. The Romanesque church was set on fire by the camisards after the site was conquered, which the castle's occupation was able to resist .
As in many places in the region, the majority of the population in Moussac remained Reformed. After the outbreak of the French Revolution , the old church was bought by the Reformed in 1792 and has served as the Protestant church of Moussac ever since. In 1928 the glass windows could be purchased.
Individual evidence
- ^ Temple protestant in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
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Coordinates: 43 ° 58 ′ 50.5 ″ N , 4 ° 13 ′ 27.8 ″ E