Our Lady's Cathedral - Antwerp

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This cathedral is the tallest Gothic church in the Low Countries. For over a thousand years, Mary has been the patroness of this Cathedral and of the city of Antwerp; each year thousands of people come and express their love and sorrow to Mary. The Province of Antwerp and the Flemish Region both donate substantial amounts of money for the restoration of the Cathedral. The Cathedral harbors, for example, a marble statue of the madonna from the fourteenth century. Some of the wall paintings date from the fifteenth century. The stately devotional statue ‘Our Lady of Antwerp’ in the Mary chapel is Sixteenth century. The four baroque masterpieces by Rubens first saw the light of day in the beginning of the seventeenth century. A tabernacle in the form of the Ark of the Covenant, just like the large clock on the tower above, is eighteenth century. The neogothic decoration stems from the nineteenth century. The sculptures that decorate the main portal were added at the beginning of the twentieth century. And as recently as 1993, a Metzler organ was installed above the south entrance to the ambulatory. #antwerp #antwerpen #anvers #anversa #cathedral #cathédrale #church #dom #gothic #gothique #gothisch #kathedraal #kirche #Notre_Dame #onzelievevrouwentoren #Our_Lady