Sint-Petruskerk
Sint-Petruskerk is a neo-Gothic cross basilica in Eindhoven, designed by H. J. van Tulder. The national monument rises above the city with a 76-metre tower. Construction began in 1874, and worship began inside in 1876 without the tower. L. P. J. Kooken completed the tower in 1912 after an earlier tower collapsed.
The church stands on the site of an older parish church with baptismal, communion and funeral rights. Catholic worship continued in hidden churches after Protestants took over the earlier building in 1648. Inside, the nave reaches 23 metres high and extends 60 metres, or 80 metres including the portals. Hand-carved oak pews from 1899 came from the demolished Sacred Heart Church in Helmond.
Painted Stations of the Cross from 1888 accompany wooden statues made between 1877 and 1894. A Walcker organ built specifically for this church in 1898 is one of only four in the Netherlands. Near the entrance, Saint Peter stands above the doors between two kneeling angels. In the left transept, an eighteenth-century Saint Peter is the oldest statue preserved inside.
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