Church of St. Augustine, Forest

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Church of St. Augustine
French: Église Saint-Augustin
Dutch: Sint-Augustinuskerk
Saintt Augustine's Church.jpg
Coordinates: 50°48′59″N 4°20′12″E / 50.81639°N 4.33667°E / 50.81639; 4.33667
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
ArchdioceseBlason de l'Archidiocèse de Malines-Bruxelles (Belgique).svg Mechelen–Brussels

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.

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 one hundred meters 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).

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Further reading[edit]

  • 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.

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  1. ^ "L'Église Saint-Augustin — Forest - 1190".
  2. ^ a b 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.