Dominican church (Our Lady of the Rozenkrans church)

The Dominican Order in Termien-Genk was founded in 1934. The first monastery was a house that is still standing today in the Calvarie Street. The street was named after the Calvarie mountain which has been levelled since and which had a cross on it. The house itself had a large workshop which was used as a chapel.

In 1939 a start was made on the construction of the monastery and the front wing of the current monastery. The work was slow because of the war (1940 - 1945) and dearth of materials. On 2 October 1943 the church was consecrated and in May 1944, the fathers were able to move from the Calvarie Street to the new wing of the monastery. During the post-war years the construction of the monastery was completed. The front wing was completed by father Luyts.

In 1946 work on the side walls of the monastery was started and afterwards the monastery was connected with the church via a back wing. The fact that the church was constructed as a monastery is evident in the priests' choir with the choir stalls behind the cross and the oaken lectern, in the middle of the priest's choir. The steeple's design is a copy of the church steeple of the Sint-Martinus church in the centre of Genk. In 1956 the church became the Termien's parish church. The Church of the Dominicans became the Our Lady of the Rosary Church.

In the church there is a modest Way of the Cross, painted in 1944 by Genk artist Willy Minders (1913-1977). Three wooden statues - a crucified Christ, Mother Mary with rosary and Child, and a Sacred Heart - are by sculptor Raf Mailleux (1916-1996) and are said to have been sculpted from wood from the ruins of the old Sint-Martinus church from the centre of Genk after it was bombed in 1944.

adress:
Rozenkranslaan 47
3600 GENK
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Tel and fax: 089 30 83 66