Guided tour of the most amazing chapel of the city

Name: Visite guidée de la plus étonnante chapelle de la ville
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle Foujita

Come and discover the chapel and its arch: the heritage of yesterday and today to build tomorrow.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

©Ville de Reims

Come and discover the chapel and its arch: the heritage of yesterday and today to build tomorrow.

Within the framework of the green axis of the museums of Reims and the «sustainable heritage», theme of the European Heritage Days, the visits will focus on the fauna and flora, the creation, the ark of Noah, and the notion of Peace and harmony at Foujita. Themes to which Caroline Valette’s work echoes with her plant installation «À claire-voie». Children will be invited to small traces of animal details hidden in the frescoes and stained glass windows of Foujita, from which they can find some elements in the plant installation.

À propos du lieu

Chapelle Foujita

33 rue du Champ de Mars, 51100 Reims

Marne
Grand Est

It was in 1964 that René Lalou, director of the champagne house Mumm, and godfather of Léonard-Tsuguharu Foujita, decided to accompany him in his wish to concretize his faith, by building a building dedicated to Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix. Indeed, the artist had felt a mystical illumination at the Basilica of Saint-Remi that had led him to baptism on October 14, 1959 in the Cathedral of Reims.
Started in 1965, this small chapel is entirely imagined by Foujita. In Reims, the artist designed a complete work of art in the wake of Matisse in Vence or Cocteau in Villefranche-sur-Mer. He draws the plans with the help of the architect Maurice Clauzier, draws the ironwork, the stained glass windows, the sculptures and paints 100 m² of frescoes inside. At the age of 80, Foujita devoted all his energy to it for three months. The chapel was blessed on October 1, 1966 and was solemnly handed over to the city of Reims on October 18, 1966.
In 2013 and 2014, the city of Reims received an exceptional donat