About
To promote Indian and French thought, culture and language in India, fostering intercultural dialogue and exchange.
Alliance Française de Delhi is a leading Indo-French cultural centre and one of the fifteen main Alliance Française centres in India, part of the global Alliance Française network founded in Paris in 1883. A legally and financially independent Indian not-for-profit specialising in French-language teaching and the official DELF/DALF and TCF examination centre in Delhi, it also curates a rich cultural programme of exhibitions, music, dance, theatre, film and photography, and maintains a French library and gallery. It fosters intercultural dialogue in partnership with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and other cultural and educational institutions.
Alliance Française de Delhi has for several decades been a central node of Franco-Indian cultural exchange. Thanks to a donation of land by the Indian government, ratified in 1998 by President K. R. Narayanan, it moved in 2004 to the prestigious Lodi Estate institutional area, near the India International Centre and INTACH. Its striking building of glass, concrete and aluminium, designed by architects Stephane Paumier and Anupam Bansal to integrate two immense existing trees, won the silver medal of the French Academy of Architecture in 2005. Supported in part by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which provides a director and other staff, it is funded largely through its own teaching, translation, gallery and membership activities.
Alliance Française de Delhi is one of the foremost international cultural centres in India, a leading platform for French language and culture and for Franco-Indian artistic exchange over many decades.
[Atlas Perspective] Profiled as an Institution (Operator), an international cultural centre in the multi-arts field. Part of the global Alliance Française network, it connects French and Indian artists and audiences and works with bodies such as the ICCR. Its Lodi Estate building is an award-winning work of contemporary architecture.