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The Rue Chasseloup-Laubat Synagogue in Paris was completed in 1913 by architect Lucien Bechmann. This Neo-Romanesque stone synagogue is still in use.

St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Russian orthodox consecrated in 1861. It is the first permanent place of worship for the Russian Orthodox community in Paris. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The cathedral, including the crypt, has been listed as a historic monument since 1981.

Neo-Gothic building built from 1881 to 1884 in a style that reflects the codes of 13th century English architecture, by the architect George-Edmund Street. The bell tower was consecrated in 1923 as a tribute to the Americans who died in the First World War. In the building there are fifty-one flags of the United States of America hanging in the nave.

Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette church was built between 1963 and 1965 on a former chapel built in 1858 by the Brothers of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. This new church was built according to the plans of the architects Henri Colboc and Jean Dionis du Séjour. This modernist church is an example of the renewal inspired by the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).

Saint-Pierre-de-Chaillot was built in the 1930s, in two stages, and completed in 1938. It was designed by the architect Emile Bois, then chief architect of the city of Paris. This new church replaces a previous church. The former church opened onto Rue de Chaillot, with only a brick-fronted chapel opening onto Avenue Marceau. Nothing remains of this old church except a statue of the Virgin, the Virgin of Chaillot.

Saint Stephen's Greek Cathedral is the cathedral of the Greek Orthodox Church of Paris and the seat of the Greek Orthodox metropolis of France. It was built under the direction of the architect Emile Vaudremer. The interior walls of the church were decorated by Charles Lameire and the marble iconostasis by Ludwig Thiersch. Vaudremer commissioned Léon Avenet to create the stained glass windows. On 9 October 1962, the marriage of Édith Piaf and Théo Sarapo was celebrated in the cathedral and on 20 September 1977, the funeral of Maria Callas took place in the cathedral.

The church of St. Leon is a parish church built in the 1920s and 1930s. The church was designed by Emile Brunet. It is built of concrete covered with bricks. The art deco-inspired decoration (stained glass windows, mosaics, sculptures, ironwork) is characteristic of the 1930s and 1940s. The mosaic is the work of Auguste Labouret.

The United Protestant Church of the Annunciation is a Protestant church built in 1891. The first parish building was an Anglican chapel made of wood salvaged from the 1867 World Exhibition. Pastor Edmond Stapfer was responsible for the construction of the present building, which was erected on land donated by the Delessert family by the architect Edouard Aubert. Aubert designed the building in the neo-Romanesque style, built in millstone.

The chapel of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament was built in 1900 in a neo-Romanesque style. The vault is reminiscent of the Abbey of Men in Caen. It is flooded with light, which its beautiful modern stained glass windows allow to pass through. The uniformly white colour of the interior accentuates this impression. The chapel is attached to the parish church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy.

The church of Saint-Christophe-de-Javel was built between 1926 and 1930. A former wooden chapel, built on this site in 1863, was destroyed in 1890, and a temporary chapel was used until 1898 when the church was built in 1926. The present church is the work of the architect Charles-Henri Besnard. The choir's mural, by Henri-Marcel Magne, depicts him surrounded by travellers imploring his protection, and modern means of transport (train, liner, balloon, plane, car), inspired by the district's transport industries, notably the nearby Citroën factories.