Chapelle Notre-Dame d'Armieux de La Rivière

About

The Notre-Dame-d'Armieu chapel, also spelled chapel Notre-Dame-d'Armieux, is an ancient chapel located on the territory of the commune of La Rivière, bordering that of Saint-Gervais in the department of Isère. It was totally destroyed during the collapse of July 25, 2024.

Location: The chapel was located near a quarry, on the hillside of Artets, at the southern end of the territory of the commune of La Rivière, on the border of the commune of Saint-Gervais, on the left bank of the Isère and on the edge of the old national road 532, which became the departmental road RD 1532 which connects the Grenobloise agglomeration to Romans-sur-Isère.

This chapel, which includes a simple oratory, was presented in the form of a very modest building, of simple architecture and situated on a flat of a mountainous slope. It housed a statue of the Virgin Mary.

This very modest chapel was located on the edge of the rock of Armieu, an escarpment on the hillside of Artets, overlooking the road from Grenoble to Valencia. She continued to remember a pilgrimage from which she could go back before the year Mil. According to...