Joseph Poelaert's eclectic church, built 1854-1874 on a filled-in basin of the old port of Brussels. It was threatened with demolition for a car park in the 1950s and with conversion into a covered market in 2011, and was kept as a church in 2014.
- Address
- Place Sainte-Catherine 50, 1000 Brussels
- Hours
- Mon-Fri 09:30-20:00; Sat 09:30-18:30; Sun 09:30-17:30 (upbxlcentre.be, 2026)
- Best time to go
- Morning, Afternoon · About 20 min
- Price
- Free entry (church)
- Price level
- €
Details can change. Check hours and prices before you go.
Good to know
- Inside, find the 14th-century stone statue of the Black Madonna and the painted wooden Saint Catherine with her wheel
- Built on the site of a harbour basin: the square to the north was the old fish market (Marche aux Poissons)