Chapelle Sainte-Barbe de Bruay-la-Buissière

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Sainte-Barbe Chapel is a chapel located in Bruay-la-Buissière, Pas-de-Calais, France.

History: The Sainte-Barbe chapel is built to serve as a chapel at the Sainte-Barbe ouvrier in Bruay-en-Artois held by the sisters of the corons. Dedicated to Saint Barbe, patron saint of the miners, it was built in 1862 near the new mining town of pit 1, to meet the needs of the new working population of the corons, and in particular of the women to whom it offered work, then a small hospital is built to the right of the chapel to which the chapel also serves as a place of worship. It was blessed in 1899 by Bishop Williez. Bruay at the time had less than twenty thousand inhabitants. According to the convention signed between France and Poland in 1919, France began to accept a mass Polish immigration to work in mines, the French male population having been decimated by the war. This reception takes place on condition that France undertakes to build places of worship for Poles. While waiting for the construction of a Polish chapel in Bruay (the chapel of the Sacred Heart in 1930), as well as two other chapels at the...