Église Saint Symphorien-sous-Chomérac

Saint Symphorien-sous-Chomérac church

Opening hours: Du 01/01 au 31/12

Its sanctuary is the Gallo-Roman pagan temple, built on a sacred prehistoric site, transformed into a Funeral chapel with a nave. It was romanised during the 11th and 12th century. The church is listed historical monument in 1985.

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The cemetery, which adjoins the church, is closed down in 1875 and disappeared during the land consolidation in 1960.
Two head roughly carved are embedded in the western façade of the Virgin chapel: Janus the god of beginnings, passages and endings (he is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past) and Mitra, an Indo-Iranian divinity from which the names and some characteristics of Rigvedic Mitrá and Avestan Mithra derive.