Saint-Édouard Church

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.

The Saint-Amé church was built in 1875 and dedicated to Saint Amé, patron saint of Amé Tilloy, founder of the Compagnie des Mines de Lens. The church was built for the workers of the pit n°3 of the mines of Lens and their families. Destroyed during the First World War, it was rebuilt in its present form in 1934-35. Since 2008, the church has been famous for its series of modern figurative stained glass windows that evoke the life of the miners of Liévin.

The church of Saint-Martin was built on the site of an old church from the 11th century, dynamited by the Germans in 1917. The construction of the present church was entrusted to Maurice Boutterin and lasted from 1929 to 1932. The church is in Romano-Byzantine style and consists of a concrete framework covered with reconstituted stone for the exterior facings and slate for the roof. The columns and mullions of the bays are made of stone.