This Gothic church which was built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is the second largest in Mechelen. It is on the site that Mechelen’s first parish church probably stood. The tower contains a complete carillon with no fewer than 49 bells.
Many wealthy Mechelen trade guilds had their altars here. The church’s rich interior was largely destroyed by bombs during the second world war.
It is magnificent!
It certainly is and so are the other churches that I visited in Mechelen. Each of them unique!
It really is beautiful and elegant, isn’t it? I love how well they restored it and retained what I imagine to be it’s original charm following the bombardment.
It was light and airy inside and I was left to wonder what it had been like before it had been bombed…
The light is so amazing inside!
You got there just in the right time
Yes the sun was beautiful that day