Sint-Theresia van het Kind Jezuskerk
Sint-Theresia van het Kind Jezuskerk stands in Ekeren, a district of Antwerp, as a small church built across a former villa complex. Its unusual setting reflects several changes: stables occupied the site in the early twentieth century, followed by homes from 1927.
During the Second World War, the buildings housed an orphanage, then became a primary school in 1947. A church was added perpendicular to the main complex, and masses have taken place there since 1948. Inside, a seventeenth-century statue of Mary with Child connects the space to older Catholic traditions, while nineteenth-century sculptures add works from the 1800s.
The clearest detail is the building’s sequence of uses: stables, homes, orphanage, school and church. That layered history places worship within a setting shaped by Ekeren’s changing community needs.
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