beguinage

thumb|upright=1.2|View of the St. Elizabeth Beguinage in Kortrijk

Key facts

UNESCO World Heritage Site.WHS: Flemish Béguinages
UNESCO World Heritage Site.image: Begijnhofhuizen in Brugge.jpg
UNESCO World Heritage Site.image_upright: 1.2
UNESCO World Heritage Site.caption: Princely Beguinage Ten Wijngaerde, Bruges
UNESCO World Heritage Site.location: Flanders, Belgium
UNESCO World Heritage Site.criteria: (ii)(iii)(iv)
UNESCO World Heritage Site.ID: 855
UNESCO World Heritage Site.year: 1998
UNESCO World Heritage Site.locmapin: Belgium
UNESCO World Heritage Site.map_caption: Location of Flemish Béguinages World Heritage Site in Belgium

via Wikipedia infobox

~6 min read

Encyclopedic overview

9 sections

Contents

Etymology
History and description
In Belgium
Other beguinages
See also
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

thumb|upright=1.2|View of the St. Elizabeth Beguinage in Kortrijk

A beguinage, from the French term '''', is an architectural complex which was created to house beguines: lay religious women who lived in community without taking vows or retiring from the world.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “beguinage” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (4)

On the map

3 mapped locations

Available in 21 languages

Show 2 more

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0