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The church is part of an old Benedictine royal abbey dating from the 6th century. The building was rebuilt by Abbot Morard in the 10th century. The current choir was built in the middle of the 12th century and consecrated by Pope Alexander III. Conventual buildings successively rebuilt during the 13th century. After the Revolution, the church lost its status as an abbey church to become a parish abbey. Reconstructions carried out between 1821 and 1854. Church classified as a historical monument by list in 1862. Remains of the former abbey classified in 1953. Saint-Germain-des-Prés church is the oldest of the great Parisian churches.

The decision to create a church in this developing neighbourhood dates back to 1861. It is the work of the architect Théodore Ballu who orchestrated the work from 1862 to 1867. He had previously completed the neo-Gothic church of Sainte-Clotilde and after 1871, he rebuilt the Town Hall destroyed during the Commune. The Trinity Church is, along with the Church of St. Augustine, the most famous religious achievement of the Haussmann period.

The church of Notre-Dame-des-Champs was built between 1867 and 1876. The architecture of the present church is in the Romanesque style. Its construction was entrusted to Léon Ginain, architect, from 1867 to 1876 and the contractor was Eugène Bonté. It was built during the rectorship of Abbé Cognat. The work was interrupted during the 1870 war and then resumed until its completion. The church was built on a very old church site. After the conversion of the Paris region to Christianity, a temple on this site was already dedicated to the Virgin Mary and named Notre-Dame-des-Vignes, as the area was then surrounded by vineyards.

The Saint-Pierre de Montrouge church was built in the neo-Romanesque style between 1863 and 1872 to the plans of Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer. It was built as part of the Haussmannian works, from 1863, at the crossroads known as Quatre-Chemins. The architect Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, who was in charge of the 14th arrondissement at the time, designed many buildings in the capital, including several churches, notably the Greek cathedral of Saint-Etienne de Paris.

The first project for the Madeleine de la Ville l'Evêque was carried out by Contant d'Ivry in 1761, and resumed upon his death in 1777 by Guillaume Couture, but the work was stopped during the Revolution. In 1806, the "Temple of Glory" was transformed by Alexandre Vignon, who gave it its current form. In 1828: return to the church project by Vignon and then Jean-Jacques Huvé. The building was completed in 1840. The inauguration took place on July 24, 1842, the day of Saint Mary Magdalene.

The Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde is one of the five minor basilicas of Paris. Before its construction from 1846 to 1857, the church of Saint Valère stood, formerly the chapel of a monastery dissolved in 1790. The architects of the church, François-Christian Gau (until 1854) and Théodore Ballu, designed with Sainte-Clotilde what is considered to be the first neo-Gothic style church in Europe.

The church of Sainte-Marie des Batignolles was built between 1828 and 1851. The construction was carried out under the direction of the architect Jacques Molinos. The church took the name Sainte-Marie des Batignolles in 1830 when Charles X created the new commune of Batignolles-Monceau by separating it from the commune of Clichy-la-Garenne. The neo-classical church is shaped like a Greek temple. Its triangular pediment is supported by four columns. It is one of the few churches that does not have a bell tower. However, it has a bell in a small tower built in 1857.

The Hôtel des Invalides was built at the request of Louis XIV to accommodate war invalids. After the Revolution, and under the patronage of Saint-Louis and the Holy Trinity, the church was administratively attached to the Army Museum from its creation in 1905. The soldiers' church is now the cathedral of the French armies.

The Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle church was built in 1909-10 on the site of the disused buildings of the Guillout box factory. The stained glass windows depicting the life of John Baptist de La Salle are by Jacques-Charles Champigneulle, master glassmaker and son of Charles Champigneulle. The stained glass windows on the left are by Marguerite Huré and date from the 1930s. The mosaic in the apse is the work of Marcel Imbs (1935).

The first place of worship of the Armenian community in Paris, the current church was built at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1902, Alexandre Mantachiants, a wealthy oil magnate, financed the construction of the building. He decided to entrust the construction of his cathedral to the architect Albert Guibert. He then asked him for a modern church with a resolutely Armenian architecture, inspired by the cathedral of Etchmiadzin. The church was finally completed in 1904, and consecrated on October 2, 1904.