Located at Sélestat, in the Bas-Rhin department, the Sainte-Foy church is located in the heart of the city, not far from the Saint-Georges church and the Humanist Library. Built in the course of the twelfth century on the remains of a first building created by Hildegarde de Buren and of which there remains a crypt under the transept, it is now listed as a Historical Monument.
The only remaining vestige of the former priory of the Benedictines and Jesuits, it presents a main portal of the 12th century with all its original sculptures. One can notably admire the Last Judgment and the Tetramorph on the tympanum. Several other sculptures are visible on the exterior including an incredible representation of St. Ignatius Loyola crushing heresy, and a statue of St. John Nepomucene sandstone eighteenth century.
Impossible not to admire the impressive polychrome pulpit of 1733 with its representation of the four evangelists. The site hosts several funerary monuments from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.
