Maraîche chapel

The building we see today was constructed around 1620, with only the base of the bell tower and the Romanesque door remaining from the original chapel. The elegant, slender shape of the bell tower, with its exposed beams, makes up for what is too massive a tower. Outside the entrance is a fore-porch known as the “ashuta” (shelter), from which the priest used to bless the countryside at the start of services in bad weather. Inside the chapel, the tower is cross-vaulted. The nave, 12 m long by 9 m wide and 9 m high, ends in a hemicycle to the east, with no transept or aisles. The altar, still in its original place, stands opposite the door.