Solesmes Abbey
Solesmes Abbey or St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes, Sarthe, France, and the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Guéranger after the French Revolution.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Religious organization
- Denomination: Catholic
- Description: abbey located in Sarthe, in France
- Also known as: “Abbaye de Solemes”, “Abbaye de Solesmes”, “Abbey of Solesmes”, “Abbey Saint-Pierre de Solesmes”, “Abbey Saint-Pierre-de-Solesmes”, “Monastery of Saint-Pierre at Solesmes”, “Priory of Solesmes”, and “St. Peter’s Abbey, Solesmes”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption de Solesmes and Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Nid.
Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption de Solesmes
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Église Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption de Solesmes is a church.
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Nid
Church
Photo: Grentidez, Public domain.
Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Nid is a church, which is situated 320 metres north of Solesmes Abbey.
St. Cecilia’s Abbey, Solesmes
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes is a Benedictine convent, founded in 1866 by Dom Prosper Guéranger, the restorer of Benedictine life in France after the destruction of the revolution. St. Cecilia’s Abbey, Solesmes is situated 420 metres south of Solesmes Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sablé-sur-Sarthe and Poillé-sur-Vègre.
Sablé-sur-Sarthe
Town
Photo: Sablesursarthe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sablé-sur-Sarthe, commonly referred to as Sablé, is a commune in the Sarthe department, in the Pays de la Loire region, western France. It is about 40 km southwest of Le Mans and about 50 km northeast of Angers. Sablé-sur-Sarthe is situated 2½ km southwest of Solesmes Abbey.
Poillé-sur-Vègre
Village
Photo: Eurasia21eu, Public domain.
Poillé-sur-Vègre is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. Poillé-sur-Vègre is situated 8 km north of Solesmes Abbey.
Solesmes Abbey
- Categories: abbey and religion
- Location: Solesmes, Arrondissement of La Flèche, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.85209° or 47° 51′ 8″ northLongitude
-0.30338° or 0° 18′ 12″ westElevation
43 metres (141 feet)Open location code
8CVXVM2W+RMOpenStreetMap ID
way 151248200OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=religiousOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=catholicGeoNames ID
6458929Wikidata ID
Q306131
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Solesmes Abbey” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Solesmesko abadia”
- Bulgarian: “Солемско абатство”
- Catalan: “Abadia de Solesmes”
- Catalan: “Congrégation de France”
- Chinese: “索列米斯本篤修士會”
- Chinese: “索莱姆圣彼得修道院”
- Chinese: “索萊姆聖彼得修道院”
- Czech: “Klášter Solesmes”
- Czech: “Opatství svatého Petra”
- Dutch: “Abdij Saint-Pierre van Solesmes”
- Dutch: “Abdij Sint-Pieter te Solesmes”
- Dutch: “Abdij van Solesmes”
- French: “abbaye de Solesmes”
- French: “abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes”
- French: “Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes”
- German: “Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes”
- German: “Abtei Saint-Pierre de Solesmes”
- German: “Abtei Sankt Peter in Solesmes”
- German: “Benediktinerabtei St. Pierre”
- Italian: “abbazia di Solesmes”
- Italian: “Abbazia di Solesmes”
- Japanese: “ソレーム修道院”
- Lithuanian: “Solemo Šv. Petro abatija”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Solesmes Kloster”
- Polish: “Opactwo św. Piotra w Solesmes”
- Portuguese: “Abadia de Saint-Pierre de Solesmes”
- Portuguese: “Abadia de Solesmes”
- Romanian: “Abația Solesmes”
- Russian: “Солемское аббатство”
- Slovak: “Opátstvo Saint-Pierre de Solesmes”
- Slovenian: “Opatija svetega Petra v Solesmesu”
- Spanish: “Abadia de San Pedro de Solesmes”
- Spanish: “Abadía de San Pedro de Solesmes”
- Spanish: “abadia de Solesmes”
- Spanish: “abadía de Solesmes”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Solesmes”
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