Jerusalem Church (Bruges)
The Jerusalem Church in Bruges was built in the 15th century. The client was Anselm Adornes, a member of an Italian merchant family who came to Bruges from Genoa in the 13th century. After his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1470, he had the family chapel, which had existed since the early 15th century , redesigned , inspired by the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The church building is thus shaped by the personal memories and spiritual impressions of its builders.
Church interior
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The interior of the church is divided into two floors. In the center of the first room on the ground floor there is a tomb with a black gisant by Anselm Adornes and his wife Margareta van der Banck. On both sides of the stone altar, behind which the Calvary rises, stairs lead to the upper floor, where there is another altar. Two passages are concealed by the stairs to the rear room on the ground floor of the Jerusalem Church, a kind of crypt, from which one can continue to reach the Holy Sepulcher .
Others
The Jerusalem Church is one of the few churches in Belgium that is privately owned.
Right next to the church, in the former foundation houses and in the former home of the Adornes family, there is the Kantcentrum - a museum on lace and lace studios .
The Jerusalem Church is the location of a scene from the film Bruges see ... and die? . However, the impression is given that it is the Holy Blood Basilica .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the Jerusalemskerk in Bruges as a quotation architecture of personal memory cf. Jan Pieper, Anke Naujokat, Anke Kappler (eds.): Jerusalemskirchen. Small medieval architecture based on the model of the Holy Sepulcher. Exhibition catalog. Aachen 2011, p. 16 f.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 44.7 " N , 3 ° 14 ′ 1.3" E