Chapelle du Saint-Esprit de Noisy-le-Sec

About

The Chapel of the Holy Spirit is a Catholic chapel located in the district of Londeau, Charles Baudelaire Street in Noisy-le-Sec. The so-called Place du Londeau (Longuedeaux, Longueau) was mentioned at the end of the Middle Ages. His first known lord is Nicolas Pyoline, a public prosecutor at the Paris Parliament in the first half of the 17th century.

After the Revolution, Nicolas Tripier – mayor of Noisy-le-Sec from 1819 to 1829 – acquired the estate to build a pavilion there, at the future location of the current residential towers. After several modifications and changes of owners, this pavilion was purchased in 1914 by the Jesuit Fathers of Popular Action (Futur CERAS). In 1923, the Order of the Carmelites of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1918 at Juvisy-sur-Orge, acquired it.

In 1964, the town hall expropriated the building and its outbuildings. The last members left Carmel with the promise of the town hall that a chapel would rise in the heart of the future HLM city of Londeau. The plan to rehabilitate the building in school was finally abandoned and the convent was razed in 1968.

However, the promise to build a chapel was realized in 1971, by the Work of...