The old Beguinage of Saint Elizabeth, dating back to 1234, owes its name to Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia. Over the centuries, the beguinage has developed into a small town with more than 100 beguine houses. The beguinage was abandoned in 1873 for the new Grand Beguinage Sint-Amandsberg, just outside the city centre.
The Terhagen Chapel is part of the Terhagen Convent of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary. This congregation has lived in Ghent since 1805. The monumental neo-Gothic chapel, dating from 1898, was designed by Ghent architect Emile Van Hoecke-Peeters. Many talented Ghent craftsmen worked on the chapel: Gustave Ladon supplied the stained-glass windows, the statues in the niches come from the studio of the De Lanier brothers, and the walls were painted by Pierre Remy Goethals. The result is impressive due to the interplay of height and color.
The St. Michael's Church was first mentioned as an independent parish church in 1147 and earlier mention of a church dates from 1105. In the 17th century, a project was started by the local guilds to built an enormous tower that would surpass the one at Antwerp by at least 10 meters, that project was finally abandoned in the 1820s. Among its treasures is a fine altar piece by Van Dyck, as well as some very interesting modern stained glass windows by Michel Martens.
St. Nicholas Church is one of the oldest buildings in the city of Ghent. Built in the 13th and 14th centuries on the site of an old Romanesque church, the church displays a particular form of Gothic style: the Scheldt Gothic.
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