Church of St. Augustine, Forest

The Church of St. Augustine (French: Église Saint-Augustin, Dutch: Sint-Augustinuskerk) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Forest, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It is dedicated to Saint Augustine.

Church of St. Augustine
French: Église Saint-Augustin
Dutch: Sint-Augustinuskerk
50°48′59″N 4°20′12″E
LocationPlace de l'Altitude Cent / Hoogte Honderdplein
B-1190 Forest, Brussels-Capital Region
CountryBelgium
DenominationRoman Catholic
WebsiteOfficial website
History
StatusParish church
DedicationSaint Augustine
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationProtected[1]
Designated08/08/1988
Architect(s)Léon Guiannotte, André Watteyne[2]
Architectural typeChurch
StyleArt Deco
Years built1932–1935
Specifications
MaterialsReinforced concrete[3]
Administration
Archdiocese Mechelen–Brussels
Clergy
ArchbishopJozef De Kesel
(Primate of Belgium)

Designed by the architects Léon Guiannotte and André Watteyne in Art Deco style, and built between 1932 and 1935,[2] it is one of three major churches in Brussels made of reinforced concrete (the other two are the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Koekelberg and the Church of St. John the Baptist in Molenbeek). The building received protected status on 8 August 1988.[4]

The church is located on the Place de l'Altitude Cent/Hoogte Honderdplein (a square named due to its altitude of one hundred metres above sea level), not far from Duden Park and the Chaussée d'Alsemberg/Alsembergse Steenweg. This site is served by the bus and tram stop Altitude Cent/Hoogte Honderd (on lines 48, 51 and 70).

See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Church of Saint Augustinus (Forest/Vorst).

Further reading
  • Christian Carez, Bruxelles Art Déco: 1920-1930 (Brussels, 1996), p. 61.
  • Gilles Queille, "Église Saint-Augustin, Place de l'Altitude 100, à Forest. Architectes L. Guiannotte et Watteyne", Bâtir. Revue mensuelle illustrée d'Architecture, d'Art et de Décoration, 40 (1936), 592–593.

References

Notes
  1. "L'Église Saint-Augustin — Forest - 1190".
  2. Romain Wibaut, Thomas Coomans and Ine Wouters, "Hidden modernity: Reinforced concrete trusses in Brussels parish churches (1935-40)", in Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories, vol. 2, edited by Ine Wouters et al. (London, 2018), p. 1970.
  3. Michelin Green Guide, Brussels (2001), p. 171.
  4. "Forest - Eglise Saint-Augustin - Place Altitude Cent - GUIANNOTTE Léon". www.irismonument.be. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
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