Locations & hours
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Grey Nuns Reading Room & Group Study Rooms
The location will reopen for the Fall 2025 semester.
Current student/faculty/staff Concordia ID cards are required to access the space; study rooms require booking.
Main Entrance
Sir George Williams Campus
Grey Nuns Building, A Wing (GN)
1190 Guy St.
Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
Accessible Entrance
See Wheelchair access to the Grey Nuns Reading Room and Group Study Rooms
Contact Information
514-848-2424 ext. 7197
Winter Hours (January 13 – May 4)
Summer Hours (June 9 – August 17)
Late Summer Hours (August 18 – September 1)
Hours of Operation
Silent Study Space
Just a five-minute walk from the Webster Library, the Grey Nuns Reading Room is situated in the beautiful former Grey Nuns chapel of the Invention of the Holy Cross.
The Reading Room is one of the Library's silent study spaces and provides seating for 234 students, with a strict no-talking rule in place. It's an ideal spot to study for an exam, review notes for an upcoming class or write your thesis.
This historic space that was built over 150 years ago and is filled with beautiful architectural details, religious furniture, glassworks and artworks. Several measures are in place to preserve this classified heritage space. It is why visitors must remove their footwear to protect the hardwood floors.
See more information about the Reading Room
Interactive panorama
Architecture and Religious Furnishings
Glassworks
Artworks
Group Study Rooms
There are 14 group study rooms on the first floor of the Grey Nuns building that can be reserved.
Eleven of these group study rooms are equipped with digital collaboration technology including a 46” LCD screen with wired and wireless connections and a wide-angle USB camera. Read more about the group study room technology in the Grey Nuns building.
Book a group study roomFloor plans
Wheelchair access to the Grey Nuns Reading Room and Group Study Rooms
Please call Security at 514-848-3717 a few minutes before your anticipated arrival to have an agent meet you.
Proceed through the Grey Nuns building archway at 1190 Guy St. south of the Faubourg Building. Please use the intercom on the gate to communicate with Security. Inform them that you need to use the wheelchair entrance to enter the Grey Nuns library area.
To leave the Grey Nuns library area present yourself to the Reading Room Monitor who will communicate with Security to assist you to exit.
