Church of St John the Baptist at Beguinage Brussels, Belgium

The Church of St John the Baptist at Beguinage Brussels is a Roman Catholic parish church. We had included this in our itinerary for self guided walking tour of Brussels.

Beguines – who are they?

Beguines have a sad and interesting story of their origin as a community.  Beguines were a community of women whose husbands and fathers did not return from wars and medieval military expeditions. Left with no male member for their care they resorted to forming a community of their own to look after their needs. They did not enter convents.

These women took up charitable work and followed enclosed living system. The place where they joined together to live began to be called as beguinage.

St John the Baptist church in Brussels

Church of St John the Baptist Brussels

Church of Saint John the Baptist at Beguinage Brussels

Church for Beguines of Brussels

Imposing facade of the Église St Jean Baptiste au Béguinage, (St. John the Baptist) Brussels. The church was constructed in 1676 for the country’s largest beguine community. The huge area housed 1200 beguine women. Even today it is a very popular place of worship.

The church has a baroque style architecture and is very pleasing to eyes.

Do check the grand interior at: Interior of Beguinage Church Brussels

Door of Church of St John the Baptist

The iron door at the front of the church is bright reddish orange in color and rich with details.

Door of Church of Saint John the Baptist Brussels

Door details

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