{"id":37945,"date":"2021-05-25T21:49:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topa.be\/monumentale-kerken\/borgerhout-st-jan-evangelist\/"},"modified":"2022-03-21T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:24:37","slug":"borgerhout-st-jan-evangelist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/topa.be\/en\/monumentale-kerken\/borgerhout-st-jan-evangelist\/","title":{"rendered":"Borgerhout, Saint John the Evangelist Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Neo-Romanesque church, built by architect F. Baeckelmans (1890). The ground plan features a basilical cross, with striking semi-circular structures and merging arches. The triforium (gallery) encompasses the whole church. The tower is particularly robust. Simple interior decoration. There is a unique set of stations of the cross (J.W. Rosier, 1908), painted on brass with brass frames. There are 16th<\/sup>\u00a0and 18th<\/sup>\u00a0century paintings by P. Thijs and W.J. Herreyns respectively. Anneessen organ from 1895.<\/p>\n

The church was withdrawn from worship in 2018. The first public activity was a successful rag-and-bone market \u2026 in the presence of the prestigious high altar. O tempora, o mores.<\/p>\n

The church, which with its robust and unique tower is one of the most important eye-catchers of Antwerp as from the Ring Road \u2013 especially if you come from Li\u00e8ge via the E313 or from Eindhoven via the E34 \u2013 functioned for more than a century as a triumphal sign of Christianity. For those of you who now know, the tower cross now stands as a symbol of past glory and of a waning church community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Borgerhout, Saint John the Evangelist church Neo-Romanesque church, built by architect F. Baeckelmans (1890). The ground plan features a basilical cross, with striking semi-circular structures and merging arches. The triforium (gallery) encompasses the whole church. The tower is particularly robust. Simple interior decoration. There is a unique set of stations of the cross (J.W. Rosier, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":37850,"menu_order":220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37945","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t