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The Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-La-Salle church was built in 1909-10 on the site of the disused buildings of the Guillout box factory. The stained glass windows depicting the life of John Baptist de La Salle are by Jacques-Charles Champigneulle, master glassmaker and son of Charles Champigneulle. The stained glass windows on the left are by Marguerite Huré and date from the 1930s. The mosaic in the apse is the work of Marcel Imbs (1935).

The church is located on top of a mound, within the ruined castle grounds, where it was once the chapel. The openings were enlarged in the 18th century. The cylindrical clock tower was built in 1745.

The church was built in 1971. In 2011-2012, the church was renovated with the construction of a campanile, by Christophe Giraud, an architect from Beauvais.

Father Georges Sauvage, appointed parish priest of Sainte-Madeleine on August 18, 1921, conceived the project of building a church that he planned to be quite large, as well as a presbytery and a workroom. Work was quickly undertaken. From September 1923 to December 1924, the work began under the direction of the architect Poyé. However, the ?nances were insufficient, and the work was interrupted. On December 24, 1924, Monseigneur Julien inaugurated the choir and a transept completed in the apse on the north side. From March 1924 to March 1925, a presbytery was created and on March 19, 1925, the church of Saint-Joseph was opened for worship.

The present church of La Bourboule was built between 1885 and 1888 by the architect Gardin, former mayor of La Bourboule. It is strongly inspired by the basilica of Orcival. It was built in white lava agglomerated from various materials

St. Joseph's Church was built from 1913 to 1922 and was intended for the miners of pits no. 6, no. 6 bis and no. 6 ter, known as the Hallicourt pits. The works were interrupted by the beginning of the 1914-1918 war and only resumed after the war according to the plans of the architect Paul Degez. The neo-gothic brick church with corbelled stone corbels in the regional style has a bell tower above the façade, topped by a high slate spire and a pointed porch. It has a Latin cross plan.

The church of Saint-Julien d'Arles is an ancient 11th-century church, then called Saint-Antoine, and rebuilt in 1622 in the classical and late Gothic style. Plundered during the Revolution, the church suffered even more during the Allied bombings of August 1944 which left it practically in ruins. Now restored, it is now closed to worship but is used as a venue for shows, concerts and exhibitions which are frequently held there.

The church built in the Middle Ages was destroyed during the siege of Beauvais in 1472. The present building was built at the end of the 15th and 16th century. The bell tower was built in the 18th century.

All that remains of the original church dating from the 16th century is the apse and the straight bay preceding it. Several elements were reworked during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The present church is a reconstruction of the former church destroyed in 1918. The only remnant of the pre-1918 church is the statue of the Virgin Mary found in the rubble of the post-World War I ruins. On 9 June 1923, the reconstruction project was accepted and signed by the mayor of Lens. Looking very much like the previous one, its location was moved back several metres as part of the widening of the Place Jean Jaurès. Faced with the risks generated by the mine galleries passing under the city, the structure is no longer made of stone but of reinforced concrete and the walls are thus less thick. The pulpit was inaugurated in 1928 and the large organs were completed in April 1930.