St. Walburga Church, Antwerp

St. Walburga Church or Burchtkerk was a Roman Catholic parish church in , modern-day Belgium. It was demolished in 1817.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Roman Catholic
  • Description: former church in Antwerp, demolished in 1817 at the Steenplein, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”, “St Walburga Church”, and “Walburgiskerk (Antwerp)”
  • Address: Volkstraat 41

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp.

Museum
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The is a museum in , Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries. is situated 220 metres southwest of St. Walburga Church, Antwerp.

Museum
Photo: Roger Price, CC BY 2.0.
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp is the contemporary art of the city of , . Its current director is Bart de Baere. is situated 460 metres west of St. Walburga Church, Antwerp.

Synagogue
Photo: Augusta2, Public domain.
The , officially the Synagogue Shomré Hadas, and also known as the Bouwmeester Synagoge, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Bouwmeestersstraat 7, in , . is situated 300 metres south of St. Walburga Church, Antwerp.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zuid and Linkeroever.

Quarter
The is a southern neighborhood in the city center of , abutting the . The had a revival in the mid-1980s and is now composed of buildings in the Art Nouveau and Modern architecture styles.

Suburb
is an area in the city of , on the left bank of the river. Historically it was a neighbourhood which belonged to , but on 19 March 1923, it was attached to Antwerp.

Neighborhood
Photo: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Antwerp's diamond district, also known as the Diamond Quarter, and dubbed the Square Mile, is an area within the city of , . It consists of several square blocks covering an area of about one square mile.

St. Walburga Church, Antwerp

Latitude
51.21041° or 51° 12′ 38″ north
Longitude
4.39603° or 4° 23′ 46″ east
Inception
1936
Named after
Saint Walpurga
Open location code
9F36696W+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 233040913
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­roman_catholic
Wiki­data ID
Q2686991
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“St. Walburga Church, Antwerp” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”
  • Dutch: “Parochiekerk Sint-Walburga”
  • Dutch: “Parochiekerk Sint-Walburgis”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Walburgakerk”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Walburgiskerk (Antwerpen)”
  • Dutch: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”
  • Dutch: “Walburgiskerk (Antwerpen)”
  • French: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”
  • German: “Kirche St. Walburg (Antwerpen)”
  • German: “Kirche St. Walburg”
  • German: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”
  • German: “St.-Walburgis-Kirche”
  • Italian: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”
  • Marathi: “सेंट वालबर्गा चर्च (अँटवर्प)”
  • Marathi: “सेंट वालबर्गा चर्च”
  • Polish: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”
  • Russian: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”
  • Slovenian: “cerkev sv. Valburge”
  • Slovenian: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”
  • Spanish: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”
  • Swedish: “Sint-Walburgiskerk”

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