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Kapel van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Zeven Weeën

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De Kapel van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Zeven Weeën is a chapel in Vreren in the municipality of Tongeren in the Belgian province of Limburg. The chapel is located on the Liegersteenweg on the west side of Vreren. The chapel was built in 1669 by Walter de Selys, a founding father of the Selys Longchamp family.

The chapel is conceived as a rectangular building in brick of two bays with a three-sided choir closure on a base of silex and marlstone. The small bell tower is located above the second bay. The tyres, corner belts and window frames are made of marl stone.

The façade consists of a staircase façade, a circular arch in the top and a rectangular circular arch portal of limestone.