Bellelay Abbey
Bellelay Abbey is a former Premonstratensian monastery in the Bernese Jura in Switzerland, now a psychiatric clinic. It is a heritage site of national significance and the entire former Abbey complex is part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Monastery
- Description: church building in Bellelay in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Ancienne abbaye prémontrée et abbatiale” and “Former Premonstratensian Abbey and Abbey Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Montbautier and Reformed Church.
Reformed Church
Church
Photo: Badener, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Reformed Church is situated 3½ km east of Bellelay Abbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bellelay and Châtelat.
Châtelat
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Châtelat was a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura, however a majority of the residents in Châtelat are German speaking.
Bellelay Abbey
- Categories: architectural structure, Catholic church building, architectural ensemble, and religion
- Location: Saicourt, Bernese Jura, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Tosk Albanian—“Bellelay Abbey” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “abayie de Bèlaleya”
- Arpitan: “Abayie de Bèlaleya”
- Dutch: “abdij Bellelay”
- Dutch: “Abdij Bellelay”
- French: “Abbaye de Bellelay”
- French: “ancienne abbaye prémontrée et abbatiale”
- French: “ancienne abbaye prémontrée et église abbatiale”
- German: “Ancienne abbaye prémontrée et abbatiale”
- German: “Ehemalige Prämonstratenserabtei und Abteikirche”
- German: “Kloster Bellelay”
- Italian: “abbazia di Bellelay”
- Italian: “Abbazia di Bellelay”
- Latin: “Bellelagia (Monasterium)”
- Latin: “Bellelagia”
- Malay: “Biara Bellelay”
- Malay: “Gereja Biara Bellelay”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Bellelay”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Bellelay”
- Swiss German: “Chloschter Bellelay”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kloster Bellelay”
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