The most beautiful religious buildings Luxembourg

Built in 1653 and rebuilt in 1772, this modest chapel is a place of pilgrimage on Whit Monday. It houses an impressive white baroque altarpiece with a statue of Saint Pirmin. The bishop is said to have lived as a hermit near the cluse in which there is a well, whose water is said to have medicinal virtues (it was used to cure children's diseases). Be careful not to confuse the tiny hermitage, which is located a few dozen meters from the main road, with this building, which is located on a higher ground.

The chapel was built in 1762 in a late baroque style by Count Adrien Jean-Baptiste de Lannoy and his wife Constance de Wignancourt to make it a place of pilgrimage dedicated to Mary. On the portal are represented their coat of arms and a relief of Our Lady of Loreto. Inside, the ceiling is adorned with a stuccoed rocaille decoration. The high altar is surrounded by two funerary monuments of the Lannoy family. The bell tower could have housed a hermit during services.

The first Christian altar was probably built in the 7th century on a Roman shrine and gave its name to the town, diet kirch meaning "people's church". Of the Romanesque building constructed around the year 1000, only a 12th century tower remains today. In the 15th century, the church was transformed to have two naves in Gothic style. The 16th century frescoes illustrate the life of St. Lawrence, the patron saint of the church. In the crypt there are Roman and Merovingian sarcophagi from the 6th century that were discovered under the church.

Erected in 1830 according to plans by the architect Schaar de Grevenmacher, the parish church of Berdorf was consecrated in 1847. Its centrepiece is the stone with four deities, which serves as a base for the altar, discovered during excavations in the villa Beronis (300 m to the south-west). It is believed to have formed the base of a Roman Jupiter column and depicts Hercules with a lion's skin and a club, Apollo with a lyre, Juno with a peacock and Minerva with a shield.

This church was built by Thomas de Septfontaines and was consecrated in 1317. The central tower, older, is in Romanesque style, but the choir and the southern apsidiole are in Gothic style. Inside the building, a beautiful monumental stone tomb from the 17th century comes from a hermitage in the area. One can also admire an 18th century pietà. The cemetery that surrounds the church contains beautiful stelae, which were made by a renowned craftsman of the village, and tombstones richly decorated with signs and symbols.

In Baroque style, the Church of Saint Remi has three phases of construction according to the principles of religious reforms initiated by the Council of Trent (1727, 1748 and 1791). Inside there is a beautiful polychrome oak furniture dating back to 1755, a 16th century pietà, a beautiful high altar and some funerary monuments. In the centre we can admire the altarpiece and the iconographic representation of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Several concerts are organized in this church, under the name of "Koerich Concerts".

This charming baroque church was built at the end of the 18th century, between 1772 and 1774 to be precise. It has a magnificent altar dating from the end of the 17th century and beautiful, remarkably well-preserved frescoes. Like many other pieces, the organ, whose case was built at the end of the 16th and 18th centuries, comes from the noble convent of Marienthal. The church also houses the gravestones of the Lords of Linster. The plans, inspired by those of the Trinity Church in Luxembourg, are attributed to Paul Mungenast of Echternach.

Symbol of the city, the Holy Cross Chapel has watched over the inhabitants of the city since 1737. The majestic stone cross placed in the apse is its centrepiece. The building that can be admired today was built - or rebuilt - in 1737, as indicated on the stone above the entrance door. Three Stations of the Cross (1627, 1875 and 1956) along the way are known. In 1956, the Holy Cross Mountain and its chapel were declared Monument to the Dead of the Town of Grevenmacher. Since 2015, the complex has been classified as a national monument.

In 1235, Alexandre de Soleuvre founded the Abbey Fontaine Marie of the order of Cîteaux. The various wars that have punctuated the history of Differdange have not spared the Abbey, which has been plundered many times. At the beginning of the 18th century, the site underwent restoration work, of which the façade of the main building and the surrounding wall remain today. Sold many times, the building was bought in 1929 by the commune to become a hospital and then a health centre.

This neo-gothic style church was erected by the architect Charles Arendt at the end of 1873 to 1877, according to plans approved by the father of the neo-gothic Viollet-le-Duc. It strikes from the entrance by its massive façade with its two bell towers and its rosettes with 12 petals. The interior architecture is very well cared for with magnificent life-size statues of saints, perfectly preserved stained glass windows, murals enhanced with gold and a most imposing organ. It is the largest and oldest church in Esch-sur-Alzette.

Surrounded by a pretty cemetery with its schist crosses, the Bavigne parish church has a sanctuary built in 1744 and a bell tower, the lower part of which may be older. The place is best known for its high altar designed and built by the sculptor Nicolas Jacques de Nobressart (1713-1793), a craftsman from Wiltz, and renovated in 1956 by Josef van Heckern from Essen. The church has been classified as a national monument since 1961.

The parish church of Saint-Martin, built between 1894 and 1897 by the architect Henri-Alphonse Kemp, is one of the most imposing and majestic in the Grand Duchy. It was Dominique Lang, a famous painter from Dudelange, who carried out his Stations of the Cross in 1900. It is also distinguished by its magnificent polychrome murals of Paleochristian and Byzantine inspiration and its neo-Gothic furniture. The organ, the work of Georg Stahlhuth, dates from 1912 and was renovated in 2002. The church regularly hosts concert organists in spring and autumn.