Monastery of the Capuchins of Dinant

The Dinant Capuchin Convent was a religious house built for the Capuchin Friars at the beginning of the 17th century .

Built on the banks of the Meuse (left bank), upstream from Faubourg Saint-Médard, the monastery was confiscated as state property by the French Revolutionary authorities in 1797 and the Capuchins expelled.

From 1838 to 1957 it was used as a guest house and then as a hospital for the Sisters of Sant Vicenç de Paul.

It was acquired by the Dinant Municipality, who installed their municipal services there (2010).

The old Capuchin monastery is a quadrilateral consisting of a church and three monastic buildings around a central space called the 'monastery'.

Willem Vandenameele