BELGIUM - ANTWERP - Cathedral of Our Lady (4)
BELGIUM – Cathedral of Our Lady of Antwerp
The Cathedral of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium.
The current church replaces an old Romanesque chapel built in the 10th century in the same place, dedicated to Mary, transformed into a Romanesque church in 1123. From 1352 to 1521, the people of Antwerp erected the largest Gothic church in the Netherlands. Emperor Charles V has the ambition to build a much larger church. The project planned to build a church three times larger than the existing building and equipped with five towers, but the fire on the night of October 5 to 6, 1533 put an end to this dream.
Built in 169 years, it is a Gothic church in the shape of a Latin cross, one of the peaks of Brabant Gothic art.
BELGIUM - ANTWERP - Cathedral of Our Lady (4)
BELGIUM – Cathedral of Our Lady of Antwerp
The Cathedral of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium.
The current church replaces an old Romanesque chapel built in the 10th century in the same place, dedicated to Mary, transformed into a Romanesque church in 1123. From 1352 to 1521, the people of Antwerp erected the largest Gothic church in the Netherlands. Emperor Charles V has the ambition to build a much larger church. The project planned to build a church three times larger than the existing building and equipped with five towers, but the fire on the night of October 5 to 6, 1533 put an end to this dream.
Built in 169 years, it is a Gothic church in the shape of a Latin cross, one of the peaks of Brabant Gothic art.