St. Andrew's Abbey

St. Andrew's Abbey, Bruges was a Benedictine abbey in Sint-Andries, Bruges, Belgium, which was destroyed in the French Revolution. Its modern successor St. Andrew's Abbey, Zevenkerken , founded in 1899–1900, is a Benedictine abbey of the Congregation of the Annunciation.

The foundation charter was signed on 22 February 1100 and ratified by Count Robert II of Flanders in June 1100. The monastery was built on what is now the site of the parish church of St. Andrew and St. Anne. The first monks arrived on 17 August 1117 from Affligem Abbey. In 1188, the priory was elevated to an abbey and became independent of Affligem, thus beginning a period of prosperity, which lasted until the 14th century. In 1240, after a long dispute between the abbot and the local parish priest, a wall was built in the church to divide it into two. In 1350 the abbey sold a piece of ground right next to the abbey itself on which the charterhouse of Sint-Anna-ter-Woestijne was built.

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