Visit : Museum /discovery, Industrial heritage

THE GLASS CHAPEL

Address:
Rue Arthur Brancart 100
7090 RONQUIERES (BRAINE-LE-COMTE)
MAPS: Google Maps
Tel.: +32 (0) 67 64 88 93
Email : michael.bonnet@chapelledeverre.be

Arthur Brancart was a master glazier and an ingenious artificer. The Fauquez hamlet owes him its wealth. During the First World War he invented the Marbrite. The 'Verreries de Fauquez' with up to 800 employees sold this opacified glass all over the world.
Arthur Brancart had a large part of the village built, as well as the school, the cinema, the village hall, the shops and last but not least the glass chapel. The interior and the exterior of the chapel were completely covered with opacified glass. Until 1977 it was used for church services and as exhibition space. Today it is used for housing, as performance hall, as memorial place for the industrial patrimony and for a Breton crêperie.

Visit type: Museum /discovery, Industrial heritage

Comment:

The crêperie closes in June, during the school holidays at the end of the year and during the Easter weekend.
Opening hours: Friday and Saturday from 6.30 pm to 10.30 pm, Sundays and public holidays from 12.30 pm to 8 pm.
One Friday a month: shows.

Visits on request for groups and individuals.
Duration of the visit: app. 45 minutes (20 min film).

For more information, surf to the website of the Glass Chapel.