Rue de l'Église

Rue de l'Église is a common road name in France and Belgium. The literal translation is street or avenue of the Church.

Sign of the rue de l'Église in Allouagne.

Belgium

Rue de l'Église is the most common street name in Belgium. Brussels has two:

France

In France, Rue de l'Église is the most used street name before Place de l'Église (Church Place) and Grande Rue. La Poste lists nearly 8,000: 20% of French communes have a route named in this way.

Streets with the name in France include:

  • Rue de l'Église, Colmar
  • Rue de l'Église, Épinay-sur-Seine
  • Rue de l'Église, Montreuil
  • Rue de l'Église, Nanterre
  • Rue de l'Église, Paris, (street of the old town in Grenelle, annexed by Paris in 1860), referring to the Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Grenelle.

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