The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris was designed by Libéral Bruant, with support from Louis Le Vau. Louis XIV directed the conversion of the former gunpowder factory into a hospice. The conversion began in 1656 and was completed in 1669. The chapel was built around 1675. The infobox gives no construction dates.
The chapel has a Greek-cross plan, four central chapels that each held about 1,000 people and a central octagonal cupola lit by arched windows. The article gives no materials or overall dimensions.
A women's prison was added in 1684, and the September massacres of 1792 took place there. Pinel and Charcot shaped its medical history. The Pitié hospital merged with it in 1964, and the Paris Brain Institute has been based there since 2010. It is a general teaching hospital with an emergency department, part of the AP-HP Sorbonne University Hospital Group. The article gives no visiting hours.
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