Chimay Abbey (French:Abbaye de Chimay) is an abbey inWallonia in the city ofChimay,Hainaut,Belgium.
It has been the name of two or three different religious houses.
The oldest foundation here, in the 9th century, was aBenedictine monastery,Chimay Abbey orSt. Monegonde's Abbey (Abbaye de Ste. Monégonde de Chimay). This later became a collegiate foundation dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. The monastery is long gone, but the church still stands in the centre of Chimay as the town's parish church.
In 1919 a convent of Trappist nuns,Chimay Abbey orAbbey of Our Lady of Peace (Abbaye de Notre-Dame de la Paix de Chimay) was established here.
The community, Trappist since 1878, was the successor to theCistercian community ofGomerfontaine, founded in 1207, suppressed in 1792 and re-established in 1802 atSaint-Paul-aux-Bois. It was exiled toFourbechies in 1904, before coming to Chimay afterWorld War I under the protection of the Trappist monastery,Scourmont Abbey, established at Scourmont in Chimay in 1850.[1]
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