Kapel van het Allerheiligste Sacrament
Kapel van het Allerheiligste Sacrament stands in Antwerp as a red-brick chapel and former convent. Ernest Stordiau designed the neo-Gothic complex, built between 1890 and 1892. A single-nave church forms a cross, with a four-bay nave and one-bay transept. Its façade carries the Virgin Mary with the divine Child, alongside a Sacred Heart statue by P. de Roeck.
The original convent served the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, founded by Mother Anna de Meeûs. Their work combined Eucharistic adoration, liturgical vestment-making for poorer churches, and catechism for children. Today, Masses and other liturgical ceremonies follow the Tridentine rite, while the buildings host retreats, conferences, adoration, and catechism. Youth groups, scouts, and guides also use the complex, and a procession leaves here on the Sunday after Corpus Christi.
Inside, pointed-arch windows illuminate a ribbed vault, preserved neo-Gothic furniture, and richly painted polychrome decoration. The choir rises beneath a star vault on shafts, while a gallery closes the transept with pointed arches. Protected as a monument in 1994, the chapel preserves an unusually complete interior within Stordiau’s surviving work. Its four-storey convent has slate saddle roofs, coupled three-light windows, and a pointed-arch portal.
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