Stak chapel Rue de Hoûte - Gesves

This pier chapel stands at the crossroads of Rue de Houyoux and Rue de Hoüte.

The simple chapel stands on a stone pilaster or stake.

The word chapel is derived from the Latin cappa = cloak, diminutive capella, and refers to the cloak of Saint Martin , bishop of Tours. Sint Maarten gave away his half cloak to a poor man, the half cloak became a relic and the room in which the cloak was kept was metonymically called capella or chapel. From the 7th century chapel became a name for a (small) place of worship.

Willem Vandenameele