ABBEY SAINT-LOUIS-DU-TEMPLE

The Saint-Louis-du-Temple abbey, known as the Limon abbey, a monastery of Benedictine nuns, was built between 1950 and 1957. Its plan is organized around a rectangular cloister with, on the first floor, the "porterie", the parlors, the exterior chapel, the choir, the chapter house, the community room, the refectory, the kitchen, and the "cellar". On the upper floors are the nuns' cells, the library and the novitiate. There is also a store selling monastic products.