Presumably in the first half of the 14th century a chapel was built in Hengelo, which was dedicated to St. Lambertus . Around 1500 this was replaced by a stone church, which passed to the Protestants at the beginning of the 17th century . The Catholics first had to move to a "barn church" in Woolde and were able to build a new barn church near Hengelo in 1786; In 1887 they started building a new church. The Lambertus Church survived the Second World War without any problems. It was restored from 1948 to 1951. In 1974 the church was named a Rijksmonument and in 1998 Pope John Paul II raised it to a minor basilica . In 2002 another restoration took place.
organ
The organ was built between 1948 and 1949 by the organ building company Vermeulen (Alkmaar). It replaced an instrument made by Gradussen (Winssen) in 1907, which had 21 stops on two manuals. As early as 1943 there were plans to build a new electropneumatic instrument with 57 registers. The new organ was inaugurated with 45 registers (2800 pipes ). It was not until 2007 that the organ was expanded as part of a restoration, to 58 stops on four manuals and pedal . The actions are electro-pneumatic.
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