Saint Elizabeth of Hungary stands at 195 rue du Temple in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. It began as a chapel for the Dames of Saint Elizabeth, part of the Third Order of Saint Francis. Marie de' Medici laid the first stone in 1628, and the church was consecrated in 1646. The facade was inspired by the Church of the Gesù in Rome.
During the Revolution it was used as a fodder barn, and it returned to the church in 1797. Étienne-Hippolyte Godde enlarged it, rebuilding the choir and adding an ambulatory, which roughly doubled its size. It was completed in 1857. The Virgin Mary chapel was demolished in 1858 for rue Turbigo.
The ambulatory holds about 100 seventeenth-century wooden sculptures from the Abbey of Saint-Vaast in Arras. The church became the convent church of the Knights of Malta in 1938.
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