Cluny Abbey
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Key facts
- Order
- Benedictine
- Dedicated to
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- Diocese
- Autun
- Founder
- William I, Duke of Aquitaine
- Location
- Cluny , Saône-et-Loire , France
- Website
- cluny-abbaye.fr
via Wikipedia infobox
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Aerial image of Cluny Abbey with its court of honor Cluny Abbey ( French: [klyni]; French: Abbaye de Cluny, formerly also Cluni or Clugny; Latin: Abbatia Cluniacensis) is a former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France. It was dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul.
The abbey was constructed in the Romanesque architectural style, with three churches built in succession from the 4th to the early 12th centuries. The earliest basilica was the world's largest church until the construction of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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