Ieper (Ypres), Flanders Belgium
[Roman Catholic]
The original church was built in the 1100s and was shared with the Benedictines of Sint-Jan-ten-Berg after 1598. It was badly damaged a number of times: in the iconoclasm of 1566 and by the invasion of French revolutionaries in 1794. Closed in 1797 it was sold and demolished. The church was rebuilt in the 1800s and World War I left the St. Nicholas church in ruins. Rebuilt after the war, very little remained of the pre-war church. Closed in 1994, it was home to the Municipal Education Museum that closed in 2016 and the building was to be sold.