Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- religious community
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Field of work
- Cistercians
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux
- Founded by
- Robert of Molesme
- Parent organization
- Royal abbey of Molesme
- Official website
- www.citeaux-abbaye.com
- Image
- Abbaye de Cîteaux La Bibliothèque.JPG
- Religious order
- Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance
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- Commons category
- Abbaye de Cîteaux
- mother house
- Royal abbey of Molesme
- native label
- Cîteaux
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- architectural style
- Gothic architecture
- inception
- 1098-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1791-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Cîteaux Abbey
Cîteaux Abbey (French: Abbaye de Cîteaux [abe.i d(ə) sito]) is a Catholic abbey located in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux, south of Dijon, France. It is notable for being the original house of the Order of Cistercians. Today, it belongs to the Trappists (also called the Cistercians of the Strict Observance).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cîteaux Abbey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.