Auditoire de Calvin (Calvin's Auditorium) Geneva
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Originally built as the Notre-Dame-la-Neuve chapel, the 15th-century Auditorium became a lecture hall at the time of the Reformation (1536).
On this site Calvin taught Reformed theology, and numerous Protestant refugee groups worshiped in their own tongue, including Italian Waldensians, the Dutch Reformed and the Scottish Presbyterians. (These groups continue to worship in the auditorium every weekend.) The Auditorium's most famous preacher after Calvin was John Knox, who carried Protestant theology to his native Scotland. A memorial to the French Reformers sits on the left side of the nave.