St Andrew's Church, Brussels
- St Andrew's Church, Brussels
St Andrew's Church in Brussels is a congregation in membership of both the Church of Scotland and the United Protestant Church in Belgium (EPUB/VPKB) (in French "Eglise Protestante Unie de Belgique" and in Dutch "Verenidge Protestantse Kerk in België".) Services are conducted in English. The congregation's mission statement is "We aspire to follow Jesus in bringing the knowledge of God's love to all".
The church buildings (located in "Chausée de Vleurgat" or "Vleurgatsesteenweg", Ixelles, off the Louise Avenue) were built in the 1920s as a memorial to the Scottish soldiers who had died in Belgium during World War I. The area surrounding the church is notable for its distinctive early 20th century Art Nouveau houses, notably the nearby home of the architect Victor Horta.
The once small congregation has grown considerably in recent years, especially as a result of the UK’s accession to (what was then known as) the Common Market in 1973 and the location of numerous international organisations in Brussels, including the European Union and NATO. The congregation today is very multinational, with a wide variety of nationalities and backgrounds being represented, although still with a substantial number of Scots.
The present minister (since 2004) is the Reverend Dr Andrew Gardner BSc PhD BD, formerly of Flowerhill Parish Church, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
ee also
*Presbytery of Europe
*List of Church of Scotland parishes
*Chapel of the Resurrection, Brussels
*Conference of European Churches
External links
* [http://www.churchofscotland.be St Andrew’s Church, Brussels]
* [http://www.europepresbytery.net Church of Scotland Presbytery of Europe]
* [http://www.protestanet.be Protestantism in Belgium] (in French and Flemish only)
* [http://www.xpats.com Expatriates in Brussels]
* [http://www.hortamuseum.be Horta Museum]
* [http://www.churchofscotland.be/images/church2.jpgDrawing of St. Andrew's Church]
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