Church of Saint-Martin

The Saint-Henri church was built in 1925 for the miners' towns of the Dourges mining company's pit no. 6 bis. The neo-classical style church is built in reinforced concrete. It is surmounted by a square bell tower on the right side of the facade, the right side of the roof being shorter than the left side of the facade. Like the bell tower, it is decorated with pilasters and dentils. The bell tower is surmounted by a balustrade. The semicircular porch is surmounted by a rose window.

St. Martin's Church was built at the beginning of the 20th century on top of an old church itself, replacing a medieval church destroyed in the 1840s. St. Martin's Church, of neo-gothic architecture, is built in red brick and corbelled stone with a high five-bayed nave bordered by two aisles, preceded by a narthex with a statue of St. Anthony. It has a rectangular plan and is topped by a high square bell tower topped by a slender spire covered with slate, like the roof. The portal is surmounted by three groups of windows, a rose window and another group of three twin windows and a clock.

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.