Sint-Joriskerk
Sint-Joriskerk stands in Antwerp as a Roman Catholic church, with a neo-Gothic building shaped by centuries of change. Its origins reach back to a chapel outside Antwerp’s walls. By 1304, the chapel had become an independent parish church, and Antwerp’s expansion later placed it beside the Sint-Jorispoort. The parish once extended towards Berchem, Wilrijk, Kiel and the Herentalse Vaart.
Iconoclasm in 1566 destroyed the interior, while Calvinists temporarily occupied the building before Catholic worship returned after 1585. French revolutionary rule destroyed the old church completely. In 1846, priest Jan Van Cauwenbergh reclaimed the site, allowing a new church to rise under architect Léon Suys. Godfried Guffens and Jan Swerts added Pre-Raphaelite wall paintings in 1871.
Restored stained-glass windows by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier brighten the interior, alongside altars, epitaphs and other artworks. The organ has two manuals, twenty stops and 1,208 pipes. A Marian statue wears crown jewels and an 1867 mantle embroidered by Louis Van Moock. A gilded-brass reliquary preserves the forty protector saints against contagious diseases.
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