The church of Saint Pierre Saint Paul is an emblematic church of the post-war reconstruction. The church is the joint work of the architects André Lurçat and Henri Lafitte. It was built to replace the Saint-Pierre church, located on the former Place d'Armes and destroyed by German bombs in 1940.
Located in the village of Dimechaux in the Avesnois, the Saint Maurice church dates from the 12th century. From the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, it underwent a large number of transformations and restorations. At the heart of this Gothic Gothic building is a funerary stone dating from 1317 which contains the burial places of Chevalier Jean de Courtrai and his wife Katherine.
The Chapel Saint Julien de Dourlers, in the North, dates from the end of the 15th century. Originally, a hospice was attached to it, welcoming travelers, indigents and pilgrims wishing to sustain themselves or find a refuge for the night. Following a fire that devastated the hospice in 1931, only the Chapel of Saint Julien remains; it is now an essential witness of the history of Dourlers.
The collegiate church of St. Waltrude was built between 1450 and 1691, without the church ever being completed. The present collegiate church is the successor to other buildings that have occupied this mound since the foundation of the first hermitage on this site by St. Waltrude (612-688). During the French Revolution, the building was used as a stable and was almost demolished. From 1803, the collegiate church became the main parish church of the town of Mons.
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