ATD Fourth World and Chapel of Our Lady of the Homeless

Name: ATD Quart Monde et Chapelle Notre Dame des sans logis
Start: 2022-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle Notre-Dame des Sans Logis

Visit of the historic premises of ATD Fourth World and Our Lady of the Homeless and all the World (historical monument)

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

ATD Quart Monde

Guided tour of the chapel, screening of a film about the chapel. Visit of the center’s premises: women’s foyer, cultural pivot. Exhibition on the history of the Noisy le Grand camp.

Types d'événement

Exposition

Thème 2022

Aucune sélection

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

À propos du lieu

Chapelle Notre-Dame des Sans Logis

77 rue Jules Ferry 93160 Noisy le Grand

Seine-Saint-Denis
Île-de-France

In 1956, Father Joseph Wresinski came to live among the 250 families reunited by poverty in a camp established in Noisy-le-Grand following the winter of 1954\. Immediately, he took innovative initiatives to concretize the rejection of the misery that he had carried in himself since his childhood in great poverty. He is convinced that this refusal is shared, first and foremost by those who suffer misery, and also by all who come to discover it. Newly classified "Historical Monument" and labeled "Heritage of the twentieth century", the chapel was built during the year 1957 by Father Wresinski and inhabitants of the camp of the homeless (non-believers, and believers: Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Christians). Its architecture is reminiscent of the "igloos" of the camp, shelters set up by Abbé Pierre to shelter homeless families after the winter of 1954\. Father Wresinski wanted it to be built in the same materials as the igloos; he also asked Jean Bazaine, painter, to create the stained glass wi