• St. Michael Cathedral's stained glasses are beautiful. Huge pipe organ and glorious building are also impressive. It locates next to Brussels central station and near Grand-Place. It is in convenient place. This Gallery aims "recording mode", then blurred photos are included. Redundancy remains though....

• Brochure of the Cathedral describes as "The building commenced at the beginning of the 13th century on the orders of Henry I, Duke of Brabant.It took about 300 years to complete. The restoration of the nave from 1983 to 1989 gave the stones, vaults and windows their splendor of former days."

• Please visit daytime walking of Brussels city and light-up night Grand-Place. I walked around by this map.

We found Facade of Cathedral	City Hall Tower can be seen	Historical atmosphere is there	Sculpture of Entrance
Looking around outside	Looking from right side	Right of nave and stained glass	South Transept
Walking around in order	Glorious style from entrance	Start from south side aisle	Stained glasses of nave
On the wall of both side aisles, there are beautiful stained-glass windows
made by J.B.Capronnier of 19th century.
Windows between side aisle and south transept are bulging		higher South transept	Stained-glass window
by Jean Haeck made in 1538 depicting Loui II of Hungary and his wife		monument of fallen solder and
statue of rood	Going to center part	Illuminated dome by lamp	last Judgment, 1528
Simon Levy in copper, 1975	last Judgment, unknown author	Northern transept is also high	Stained-glass window by
Jean Haeck from Antwerp made in 1537 from drawing by Orley. It depicts Charles V and his wife Isabelle of Portugal in adoration in front of the Holy Sacrament, accompanied by Charlemagne and Elizabeth of Hungary.
Looking at backside of Northern side aisle	"The education of the Virgin by St. Anne" by Duquesnoy, in 17th century		Northern side aisle
Northern side of stained-glass widows are also beautiful,
made by J. B. Capronnier in 19th century.
	Going down to basement	Northern Nave	Going down to
underground floor, basement of the Cathedral can be seen.
back to center of the nave	Balance between huge and glorious	Statues of the apostles on the pillars,
baroque style works of the 17th century by local sculptors		Upper left is pipe organ	beautiful golden dome
Huge pipe organ	Statues of the apostles on the pillars

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