Although the two symmetrical tall spires of this church (76 meters high) are visible from many parts of the city, it is almost always quiet here, both outside and inside. If you are tired of the noise and tourists of old Strasbourg, come to St. Paul's Church to immerse yourself in tranquility. If you are very lucky, you can even attend an organ music concert. The city center is just a stone's throw away, but its atmosphere is completely different from that of the church. St. Paul's Church stands on the Island of Saint Helena, formed by two rivers: the Ill and the Aar. By the way, you can take excellent pictures from the bridges over the Ill: Saint-Guillaume and Royal. As St. Paul's Church is one of the few buildings that is not squeezed from all sides by other buildings, you can take a picture of the entire church with two rivers hugging it like two hands. Although it looks like a perfectly preserved example of Gothic, similar to St. Elizabeth's Church in Marburg, this is a real "new building" compared to the "Gothic" centuries. The church is only 130 years old.

At the end of the 19th century, there was a temporary crisis of ideas in the architectural world. It seemed that everything had already happened: Gothic, Baroque, Renaissance, Classicism. What could have been next? Art Nouveau was just beginning to develop in the depths of Belgium, so the architects spent the last decades of the outgoing century reconceptualizing the existing styles. They started to add the prefix "neo" to each style. Thus, St. Paul's Church is a neo-Gothic style built by the German architect Louis Muller as a regimental church for the German garrison. Why German? Because Strasbourg, as the capital of Alsace, passed from France to Germany and vice versa several times in 500 years. In 1919, when the city had been returned to France, the church was handed over to the local Protestants.

From the outside, the building doesn't look too big, but inside, there is a huge space that can accommodate 3,000 worshippers. Although the ceiling and wall paintings can not boast of a long history, they are quite worthy of attention. The church looks especially beautiful from the water: you can take a boat trip along the rivers to discover the new details of St. Paul's Church St. Paul that are invisible from the ground.