2024

THE CHURCH OF SAPPEY-EN-CHARTREUSE

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

This mountain church has a simple charm and serves as a "lighthouse" for this mountain range marked by spirituality. This 12th century church, which borders the road that climbs to the Porte pass, has been altered twice, notably in the 19th century with the help of the monks of the Grande Chartreuse. To see: a small stained glass window from the 16th century bearing the symbol of the Carthusian order, an element of a gilded wooden altar from the 17th century, a wooden Virgin from the 18th century, the stained glass windows created by the painter Arcabas.

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