Paray-le-Monial The best place to see Cluniac architecture in Burgundy nowadays is, surprisingly, not Cluny at all, as almost all of the abbey church was destroyed following that awful Revolution. Of what was until the 17th century the largest church in Christendom, today the only substantial section remaining is one transept: Instead, the place to go to see the closest thing to what Cluny must have looked like is Paray-le-Monial (Saône-et-Loire), where the current basilica was built in the 12th century by Abbot Hugues de Semur of Cluny as a lesser version of the great abbey church there: