Church of the Minims, Medieval convent in La Riche, France.

The Church of the Minims is a former monastery in La Riche, on the right bank of the Cher. The surviving 17th-century convent building is a long stone structure with a steep dark roof, six upper windows and a lower stone wall. A neo-Gothic chapel, designed by Charles and Gustave Guérin in 1877, stands over the tomb of Saint Francis of Paola; only its choir and apse were built.

Francis of Paola arrived in Tours in May 1483 at the request of Louis XI and lodged with his companions near the château du Plessis-lès-Tours. Charles VIII's letters patent of 24 April 1489 authorised a move to land by the Cher, where the church was built in 1490 under Pierre Mahy. The convent was sold as national property during the Revolution, its church destroyed, and the surviving 17th-century conventual building, the neo-Gothic chapel and the octagonal tower were inscribed as monuments historiques in 2007.

The Minim convent takes its name from Jesus-Maria, as Francis of Paola dedicated it. Each year in early April a mass at the saint's tomb marks his death; pilgrims come from France and Italy. The tomb itself lies in the unfinished neo-Gothic chapel built by Charles and Gustave Guérin from 1877, of which only the choir and apse were completed.

The convent complex is described in the sources as inaccessible and much deteriorated, so it cannot be visited inside; the neo-Gothic chapel of 1877, left unfinished with only its choir and apse built, stands above the tomb of Saint Francis of Paola. The site lies in the Saint-François locality of La Riche, on the right bank of the Cher, and is owned by the regional university hospital of Tours. A Mass at the tomb is held each year in early April.

The Minim church had a single nave without a transept, held by sixteen buttresses, and was built in under a year between Easter and Christmas 1490. Limestone came from Écorchevau, Véretz, Saint-Aignan and Bourré. Francis of Paola was buried in the Saint John the Baptist chapel on 5 April 1507, then moved to a stone sarcophagus days later to protect the body from Cher floods.