The holy places of France · Île-de-France
Noisy-le-Grand Notre-Dame-des-Sans-Logis
Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France
- Getting there
- About thirty minutes from the center of Paris by the RER A.
- On our way
- Via Caritatis
History
In July 1956 Father Joseph Wresinski was sent to a camp at Noisy-le-Grand where some two hundred and fifty homeless families lived in huts of corrugated iron. He stayed, and with those families he founded the movement now called ATD Fourth World.
The people of the camp built the chapel of Notre-Dame-des-Sans-Logis, Our Lady of the Homeless, from salvaged materials, and it opened at Christmas 1957. Its five windows by Jean Bazaine and Marguerite Huré show the Glorious Mysteries. When the camp was cleared, the families moved the chapel themselves. It has been a listed historic monument since 2016.
To see and to pray
- The chapelIts rounded roof recalls the iron huts of the camp; Mass is said there each week.
On our way
Getting there
About thirty minutes from the center of Paris by the RER A.
Nearby
- Ivry-sur-SeineThe House of Madeleine Delbrêl, about 8 miles as the crow flies
- Saint-DenisThe Basilica of Saint-Denis, about 11 miles as the crow flies
- Issy-les-MoulineauxThe Seminary of Saint-Sulpice, about 13 miles as the crow flies
- PontoiseThe Carmel of Pontoise, about 25 miles as the crow flies