Église Sainte-Croix

The parish church at the southern end of Place du Marché, completed in 1777 as part of the Sardinian plan for Carouge. The façade is restrained neoclassical, but the interior is warmer — painted vaults, side chapels, and the kind of decoration you would not expect to find two tram stops from Calvinist Geneva.

The church is free to enter and is open most days. It is worth a brief look for the interior and for the contrast it provides with the Reformed churches of the old city across the river.

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A story
Carouge was planned as a Catholic rival to Calvinist Geneva — the church was a deliberate statement. When the town was ceded to the Swiss Confederation in 1816, Geneva's Protestants and Carouge's Catholics found themselves unexpectedly sharing a canton.