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The Church of Our Lady of Laeken is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Brussels district of Laeken, Belgium. Built in neo-Gothic style, it was originally erected in memoriam of Queen Louise-Marie, wife of King Leopold I, to the design of the architect Joseph Poelaert.
Centered around the magestic Church of Our Lady of Laeken, burial place of the kings and queens of Belgium, the Parvis Notre Dame de Laeken has some of Brussels’ most remarkable monuments in its neighbourhood: the cemetery of Laeken, nicknamed the “Père Lachaise of Brussels” for the amount of important historical figures buried there.
The church of Our Lady of Laeken, completed in the early 1900s, is in a lovely Neo-Gothic style. It’s not as centrally located in Brussels as other impressive churches such as the Cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudula, and the church of Notre Dame du Sablon, but if you can make it out to Laeken, don’t miss paying a visit to this church and the adjoining cemetery.
The adjacent Church of Our Lady of Laeken is the site of the Royal Crypt of Belgium, consecrated in 1872. Notable interments. Personalities buried there include: Alphonse Balat (1818–1895), architect; Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802–1870), violinist and composer; Jacques Coghen (1791–1858), Finance Minister and ancestor of King Philippe
6 de sept. de 2021 · All the monarchs, all their consorts, and some other members of the Belgian royal family have been buried at the neo-gothic Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Laeken in Brussels, Belgium, the burial church of the Belgian royal family, built in memory of Queen Louise-Marie, the second wife of Belgium’s first king Leopold I. The Belgian ...
The Church of Our Lady of Laeken (French: Église Notre-Dame de Laeken; Dutch: Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk van Laken) is a neo-Gothic Roman Catholic church in the Brussels district of Laeken, Belgium. It was originally built in memory of Queen Louise-Marie, wife of King Leopold I, to the design of the architect Joseph Poelaert.
