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The status of religious cults

Religious status, inherited from the 1801 treaty, is a particularity of local law. Four cults are recognised by the State: three Christian communities (Lutheran, Catholic and Reformed), and the Jewish community. Churches still have an official status. The State pays ministers of the Church and is involved in their appointment. This particularity gives Alsace two specific holidays, Holy Friday and December 26th (Saint-Etienne).

Mostly Protestant until the 19th century, Mulhouse is now mostly Catholic, due to the influx of workers linked to the city's industrial development.

Religious instruction is a mandatory subject in public schools, even though, in practice, parents are free to choose for their children to take it or not.

Another particularity is the organisation of graveyards, which should, theoretically, be confessional (like the Mulhouse central graveyard), even though new graveyards are usually mixed, like the Northern Cemetery of Bourtzwiller.

Churches in Mulhouse

Catholic workship

Sacré-Coeur
84 rue de Verdun
Tél. : 03 89 54 32 54

Saint-Antoine
68 rue de Soultz
Tél. : 03 89 52 39 42

Saint-Barthélémy
95 rue du Château Zu-Rhein
Tél. : 03 89 42 05 54

Sainte-Claire
18 rue de l'Armistice
Tél. : 03 89 52 26 52

Saint-Etienne
10 rue Magenta
Tél. : 03 89 45 46 51

Saint-François D'Assise
3 rue Fénelon
Tél. : 03 89 42 45 33

Saint-Fridolin
66 rue des Pins
Tél. : 03 89 33 53 40

Sainte-Geneviève
20 rue de Stalingrad
Tél. : 03 89 45 56 33

Saint-Jean Bosco
71 rue de Sausheim
Tél. : 03 89 46 39 97

Sainte-Jeanne D'Arc
42 boulevard des Alliés
Tél. : 03 89 45 89 61

Saint-Joseph
91 rue de Strasbourg
Tél. : 03 89 42 22 26

Saint-Luc
19 rue Mathias Grunewald
Tél. : 03 89 42 79 59

Sainte Marie
13 rue du Couvent
Tél. : 03 89 46 42 84

Saints-Pierre et Paul
22a rue Daguerre
Tél. : 03 89 42 65 00

Sainte-Thérèse
5 avenue DMC
Tél. : 03 89 42 08 51

Protestant Churches

Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine

Saint-Etienne
12 rue de la Synagogue
Tél. : 03 89 66 30 19

Saint-Jean
6 impasse des Cendres
Tél. : 03 89 45 14 41

Saint-Marc
36 rue de Ruelisheim
Tél. : 03 89 51 16 84

Saint-Paul
18 rue Hubner
Tél. : 03 89 42 06 65

Saint-Pierre
40 rue des Bateliers
Tél. : 03 89 44 41 24

Dornach
8 rue Schoepflin
Tél. : 03 89 42 30 77

Illberg
25 rue George Sand
Tel. : 03 89 60 40 04

Augsbourg confessional church

Saint-Martin
13 rue de Saule
Tél. : 03 89 42 72 29

Jewish worship

Synagogue
2 rue des Rabbins
Tél. : 03 89 66 21 22