The chapel of Boondael, built in the 19th century, is the third chapel built on this site. A first chapel was built in the 15th century as a place of worship for the villagers. The present chapel is a reconstruction of 1842 by the architect Pierre Vandenbranden. Today, the chapel is used for artistic and cultural activities.
The church of Saint Adrien was built from 1938 to 1941, to replace the chapel of Boondael as a place of Catholic worship, it is a parish church for the Catholic community of Ixelles. The church of Saint-Adrien is also a place of worship for the Maronite community (Eastern Catholics of Lebanon). The chapel of Boondael was desecrated and saved from demolition in 1927 by the intervention of the Royal Commission of Monuments and Sites.
St. Clement's Church is a church whose oldest part consists of the main nave and the Romanesque tower, dating back to the 11th century. The building was enlarged in the 15th century with the addition of a transept and a choir in late Gothic style. In 1871, the church was extensively restored and the 15th-century additions were removed and rebuilt in the neo-Romanesque style.
La Cambre abbey was founded around 1200 by Gisele, a Brussels lady who wanted to establish a Cistercian monastery in the village of Ixelles. The abbey takes the name Camera beatae Mariae, which will finally give "the Cambre". In 1796, by decree of the Republic, la Cambre is closed and its property sold as national property. The abbey is restored in the first two decades of the 20th century.
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