In 1893, YMCA Paris constructed a building at 14, rue de Trévise in Paris, which it still owns. Today, the “14Trévise” label designates a sport, intellectual and cultural activity center, as well as a student hostel. It’s a typical building of the YMCA’s original architecture and is listed in the Inventaire Supplémentaire des Monuments Historiques, which is home to a heritage and features several iconic spaces: a theater, a swimming pool, a hostel, workshops, and a gymnasium that houses the oldest basketball court in the world in its original state!

YMCA Paris is the French branch created by the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) movement in 1852, the oldest youth organization in the world, founded in London in 1844. YMCA Paris is a non-profit association recognized as being of public utility and has never stopped its activities during its 175-year history. Although we are currently little known to the wider public, we are mentioned in the press when it comes to basketball, theater, cinema, rap and fashion.…