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Brick church building, right across from the Walloon Church . The building was built in 1915 as a theatre hall and was part of a Catholic association building, the client was the St. Josephs-Gezellen-Vereeniging. In 1938 the Reformed Church in Hersteld Verband took over the building, renovation of the interior and exterior for use as a church hall (incl. relocation of the entrance) under the leadership of architect Herman van de Kloot Meyburg. On 12 May 1939 it was actually put into use as a church under the name Begijnhofkapel, this name had become available in 1586 because the current Walloon Church (located across from it) was given its current name because of Protestantism, In 1946 it was again called the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1946, the Reformed Church in Restored Association (GKHV) merged with the Dutch Reformed Church, this denomination then had two church buildings close to each other ( Grote of St. Bavokerk and the Begijnhofkapel). From September 20, 1953, the Baptist Church of Haarlem held its services in the Begijnhofkapel. Since January 1, 2019, no denomination has been established in this former church building, it is now a small theater, the Baptist Church of Haarlem left the building on that date.

Ever since the beguinage was founded at the beginning of the fourteenth century, there has been a chapel on this site. When the English Protestants took over the medieval chapel in 1604 , the Catholic beguines went to church elsewhere in the beguinage. In 1665 , two houses on this site were merged into one church space. On 2 July 1671, the first stone was laid for the major renovation into a fully-fledged church space based on a design by Philips Vingboons.

The Beguinage Church in Mechelen was built between 1629 and 1647. It was designed by Pieter Huyssens and Jacques Francart. It has a beautiful baroque facade of Italian influence.

Originally a church of the Beguinage. In use as a Walloon Church since 1586. Nave with modest tower from the 14th century, now heavily renovated. Much higher choir, probably end of the 15th century. On the north side of the choir a sacristy with a very remarkable wooden hanging vault. In the choir a wooden barrel vault.

Begnadalen church is a long wooden church dating from 1964. The interior and furniture date from the time of construction and most of them are made of unpainted pine. The alternative is covered with plaques decorated by the painter Anders Ragnvald Andersen.

A funerary bastion at the foot of a devastated city center.

The Beguinage of Anderlecht, one of the smallest in the Southern Netherlands, was founded in 1252. The buildings that have survived date from the 16th and 17th centuries. The French Revolution put an end to the presence of beguines. The buildings became charity offices. In 1930, a museum was created there to bring the daily life of the beguines and the history of Anderlecht to life.

The beguinage of Diest dates from the 17th century. The first beguines settled from 1245 on the territory of Webbekom, outside the ramparts of Diest. The houses of the beguines were gradually rebuilt to finally form a beautiful group of houses in traditional style, most of them dating from the 18th century.

The Beguinage of Saint-Elisabeth in Kortrijk was founded in 1238 by the Countess of Flanders Joan of Constantinople. The present forty-one houses, all whitewashed, date from the 17th century. It is one of the Flemish Beguinages on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The Beguinage of Turnhout has no precise date of foundation, but it was probably founded in the 13th century. The beguinage has a well-preserved baroque church, an infirmary and houses from the 16th and 17th centuries. It houses a museum on beguine culture.