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Monastery

Two bright vaulted corridors meet above a geometric tile floor.

Ulingsheide Abbey

Architecture & heritage

In 1884, the first Trappists from Westmalle settled at Ulingsheide in Tegelen. They started with a farm in what was…

Two vaulted corridors meet beside a central staircase.

Jesuit monastery in Valkenburg

Architecture & heritage

The former Jesuit monastery in Valkenburg was not a building you could simply walk into. Several photographers tried to arrange…

Stone balustrade beside stained-glass windows in the chapel

Kent School in Waldniel-Hostert

Health & care

Kent School had several other functions before its time as a British school. The complex was built in the early…

Close-up of organ keyboards and white stop tabs facing the church interior.

Monastery Mont G

Religion & remembrance

This former monastery had been on my list for a long time. On a drizzly day, I finally photographed the…

Long gallery with pointed arches, coloured window left and metal balustrade right.

Loreto convent, Simpelveld

Architecture & heritage

Huize Loreto in Simpelveld is a large building with a very specific origin: the work of the Sisters of the…

Chapel with wooden pews, coloured windows and heavily peeling walls.

Agnus Dei convent

Religion & remembrance

Half burned out, partly collapsed and photographed endlessly already. Plenty of objects had been staged as well. Enough reasons to…

Long corridor between small partitioned spaces with coloured curtains.

Koningsbosch convent

Religion & remembrance

Construction of the convent in Koningsbosch began in 1873. The complex grew in stages, leaving several architectural styles side by…

Central aisle of Rolduc’s abbey church, with wooden pews between substantial stone pillars beneath a painted vault.

Rolduc Abbey

Architecture & heritage

Rolduc Abbey stands where the histories of the church, education and coal mining meet. Over more than nine centuries, the…