Guided tours: Memories of the camp of the castle of France

Name: Guided tours: Memories of the camp of the castle of France
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Chapelle Notre-Dame des Sans Logis

Over the weekend, while walking through the Hauts-Bâtons district, discover the history of the Château de France camp by visiting the Notre-Dame-des-Sans-Logis chapel and the Cent…

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

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Open access

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01 48 15 53 70

Daniel Thomas, Direction de la Communication, Ville de Noisy-le-Grand

During the weekend, while touring the Hauts-Bâtons district, discover the history of the camp of the Château de France by visiting the Notre-Dame-des-Sans-Logis-et-de-tout-le-monde chapel and the Family Promotion Centre: visits and meetings on the program, organized by our partner ATD Fourth World.

About the location

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