Pontaix Protestant Temple

The château chapel overlooking the river has two beautiful Breton windows, and was a reformed temple in the 16th c. Frescoes from the 13th and 14th c. 16th-century funerary litter of Huguenot lords. Listed historic monument.
A church was built in Pontaix as early as 1561.
During the Wars of Religion, Pontaix was one of the Protestant strongholds of the Diois region, but its fortifications were demolished in 1581. In 1614, the Protestants were forced to return to the Catholics the church they had occupied for half a century (the former church of Saint-Apollinaire). Their temple was razed when the Edict of Nantes was revoked. Returning to Catholicism, it escaped demolition in 1685 and became a temple again during the Revolution.
A clandestine church was organized as early as 1740, and it was in Pontaix that the provincial synods of 1791 and 1793 were held. In 1803, the Catholic church once again became a temple (concordat regime) and the mobile pulpit of the desert was installed there.