Chapel Dedicated to St. Joan of Arc

Reconstructed by
Marquette University

This 15th century Gothic oratory, the Chapelle de St. Martin de Sayssuel, was built in the French village of Chasse, near Lyon. When the architect Jacques Couelle discovered it after the First World War and helped arrange its relocation to Long Island, New York in 1926. In 1964 the chapel was given to Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was reconstructed on the campus and dedicated to St. Joan of Arc.

 

 


 
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