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Kruisheren Church (St. Barbara’s Church) Diest

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Kruisheren Church (St. Barbara’s Church) Diest

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    May 30, 2022

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    Location: The Kruisherenkerk - Diest

    The Kruisherenkerk or Sint-Barbarakerk is the only Baroque church in Diest. Before the church was built, there was a chapel of the archers' guild dedicated …
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    April 25, 2021

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    On this site stood the Saint Barbara chapel where the grandfather of Saint Jan Berchmans was buried.
    The current church was built in 1656.
    (info source: tourismediest.be)
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    March 15, 2024

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    Formerly the monastery church of St. Barbara or the Augustinian church. Baroque building made of brick and iron sandstone; work started in 1656 and finished in 1664-1667. Altars (main altar of Averbode by P. Verbruggen, 1651) and confessionals in Baroque and Louis XVI style (the latter at the south entrance by Vasseur from Antwerp, 1798). Immovable Heritage Inventory 2024: Kruisherenkerk, id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/41615
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    Location: Diest, Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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