Open Churches Days at
7th Day Adventist Church Liège

Saturday :
9.45 Bible study time
11.00-12.30 Worship service

Near the Parc de la Boverie, a few metres from the Parc d'Avroy, on the banks of the Meuse, on what was probably an old towpath*, stands a ten-storey building. At the foot of the building, at no. 29 Boulevard Frère Orban, you can make out, in a recess, a magnificent old-style double door decorated with a grey square motif in imitation glass. This is the remarkable and discreet entrance to the building of the 7th Day Adventist Church in Liège.

You enter through a hall that gives access either to the mothers' room, which precedes the chapel, or to an airlock leading to a small inner courtyard and then to the ancillary rooms.

When you enter the chapel, you discover a luminous space lined with windows, stripped to the bare essentials. At the back, above the pulpit, you can make out a mural fresco incorporating 4 strong biblical symbols of Christianity. Is this a representation of the logo of the 7th Day Adventist Church or a simple illustration of its doctrinal foundations? A pertinent question for a quiz. This and many other questions will be put to you during your visit.

If you wander around the site, you'll find other frescoes, paintings and powerful symbols. Some visible, others much less so. In the case of the latter, it will take all the attention and discerning eye of the uninformed visitor to make out their presence and outlines, even if these elements include features common to most 7th Day Adventist churches.

However beautiful and profound these illustrations may be, they are far from being able to rival the aesthetic heritage of other older buildings, each of whose stones could evoke stories stretching back several centuries. However, this place is not lacking in assets, starting with the "living stones" that make it up and which, as the apostle Peter so aptly invites us in his 1st letter (chap. 2. v. 5a), can build a "spiritual house". What better way to "wink at the impossible"?


*A statue in honour of a tow horse has been erected a few metres towards the Albert 1er bridge.