Marseille, FR

Chapel of the Bernardines

The Bernardine nuns, reformed Cistercian nuns, founded a first convent in Marseilles in 1637 on the new quayside, on the estate of the "King's Garden", spending 800,000 pounds for this construction and settling there on 20 August 1751. The building of the convent and its church was first entrusted to the architect Pierre-Paul Bruand and then to the Marseille architect Balthazar Dreveton. Today the building is transformed into a theatre.

About this building

The church is oriented and has a long floor plan. It has a dome above the choir.

Key Features

  • Interior features

Other nearby buildings

Eglise de la mission de France, Marseille 1e

The church of the Mission de France is a church built at the end of the 17th century and renovated in the 19th century. This church has been listed as a historical monument since December 8, 1965.

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Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Church

The church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, locally called "Church of the Reformed", owes its current name to a chapel of the reformed Augustinians of the seventeenth century who occupied this site. Destroyed in 1868, it was replaced by the current church inaugurated in 1886. The church is registered as a historical monument since 2015.

Saint Ferreol Church

Work will start very slowly in 1447. The consecration of the church is carried out on January 15, 1542 by Barthélemy Portolenqui, bishop of Troyes, whereas the nave is covered only with a simple wooden frame.

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