Antwerp
| House | Order | Town | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmel Emmaus, Weelde (closed) | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Weelde (Ravels) | The URV directory records that the monastery in Weelde has closed. The date and the fate of the building were not found. |
| Monasterium Magnificat, Westmalle (Annonciades) | Annonciade nuns (Order of the Virgin Mary), nuns | Westmalle (Malle) | |
| Nazareth Abbey, Brecht | Trappist, nuns | Brecht | Appeal open |
| Norbertine nuns at Tongerlo | Norbertine, nuns | Tongerlo (Westerlo) | |
| Poor Clare Monastery, Turnhout | Poor Clare, nuns | Turnhout | No appeal found |
| Priory of the Holy Sepulchre, Tongerlo | Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, nuns | Tongerlo (Westerlo) | |
| Saint Bernard's Abbey, Bornem (former) | Cistercian, monks | Bornem | No longer a living monastery: Dutch Wikipedia gives 2017 as the year the abbey closed and its present use as a housing project, and the URV directory calls it a former monastery now converted to housing, with Abbot Gerard Van Malderen still responsible. This corrects the earlier entry, which treated the abbey as active. |
Brussels
| House | Order | Town | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmel of Brussels | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Saint-Gilles (Brussels) | |
| Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem, Saint-Gilles (Brussels) | Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem (brothers and sisters) | Saint-Gilles | The brothers' and sisters' fraternities founded at Saint-Gilles in 2001 closed in June 2017 according to Wikipedia, and Brussels is absent from the order's current list of foundations, although the COREB directory (2025) and OpenStreetMap still carry both fraternities. |
| Poor Clares of the Chant d'Oiseau, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (Brussels) | Poor Clare, nuns | Woluwe-Saint-Pierre | The Poor Clares left the Chant d'Oiseau in April 2026 for a Christian retirement home in Uccle. The COREB directory (2025) listed the community under its abbess with the Malonne sisters' e-mail address, the Malonne community having joined it. The Franciscan friars, owners of the 2.4-hectare Art Nouveau site, have handed it to L'Arche Bruxelles (homes for adults with disabilities) and the developer JCX Immo (about twenty homes for older people); the friars move to the parish of Saint-Gilles and the Maison Notre-Dame du Chant d'Oiseau closes in 2027. |
East Flanders
| House | Order | Town | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmel of Aalst | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Aalst | |
| Carmelite nuns of Sint-Niklaas, now at the Sint-Coleta care home, Ghent | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Ghent | |
| Colettine Poor Clares of Ghent (Monasterium Bethlehem) | Poor Clare, nuns | Ghent | Left Ghent in June 2022 after some six centuries. VRT counted six remaining sisters (the community once had more than twenty): the elderly sisters moved to Lokeren to join the community of the Sisters of the Holy Angels, while the one Filipino sister was to return to a community in the Philippines. The URV directory lists the Colettines at Brugstraat 123, Lokeren, beside the Poor Clares' Monasterium Heilig Hart. The monastery and chapel on the Sint-Elisabethplein were handed to the Bishop of Ghent, who was to look for a new use close to the spirit of the place. |
| Poor Clare Monastery of the Sacred Heart, Lokeren | Poor Clare, nuns | Lokeren | |
| Priory of Hunnegem (Benedictine nuns), now at Erpe-Mere | Benedictine, nuns | Erpe-Mere |
Flanders
| House | Order | Town | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey of Maria Mediatrix and Saint Wivina, Leuven | Benedictine, nuns | Leuven | |
| Abbey of Our Lady of Bethlehem, Bonheiden | Benedictine, nuns | Bonheiden | |
| Abbey of Saint Godelieve, Sint-Michiels (Bruges) | Benedictine, nuns | Sint-Michiels (Bruges) | |
| Abbey of Saints Peter and Paul, Dendermonde | Benedictine, monks | Dendermonde | |
| Achel Abbey (Achelse Kluis) | Trappist, monks | Hamont-Achel | The last monk had left the abbey by January 2021, when its beer lost the Trappist label; the house is no longer on the order's list of monasteries. |
| Affligem Abbey | Benedictine, monks | Affligem | |
| Averbode Abbey | Norbertine, canons | Averbode | |
| Bethlehem Monastery of Our Lady of the Fiat, Opgrimbie | Monastic Family of Bethlehem (nuns), nuns | Opgrimbie (Maasmechelen) | Lives on gifts |
| Carmel of Antwerp | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Antwerp | |
| Carmel of Moerzeke | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Moerzeke (Hamme) | |
| Carmel of Oudenaarde | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Oudenaarde | Closed in May 2025 after nearly 180 years: the last six sisters moved to the Carmel of Vilvoorde, leaving four active communities of Carmelite nuns in Flanders. The sisters asked that the building become a socio-cultural center. |
| Carmel of Our Lady of Consolation, Vilvoorde | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Vilvoorde | |
| Carmel of Vlamertinge | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Vlamertinge (Ypres) | |
| Grimbergen Abbey | Norbertine, canons | Grimbergen | |
| Klaarland Priory | Trappist, nuns | Bocholt | |
| Monasterium De Wijngaard, Bruges | Benedictine, nuns | Bruges | |
| Park Abbey | Norbertine, canons | Heverlee (Leuven) | |
| Poor Clare Monastery De Croone, Stabroek | Poor Clare, nuns | Stabroek | |
| Poor Clare Monastery of Saint Joseph, Sint-Truiden | Poor Clare, nuns | Sint-Truiden | No appeal found |
| Postel Abbey | Norbertine, canons | Mol | |
| Priory of Our Lady of Bethany, Loppem | Benedictine, nuns | Loppem | |
| Priory of Saint Joseph, Rollegem | Benedictine, nuns | Rollegem (Kortrijk) | |
| Priory Regina Pacis, Schoten | Benedictine, nuns | Schoten | |
| Saint Andrew's Abbey, Zevenkerken | Benedictine, monks | Sint-Andries (Bruges) | |
| Saint Sixtus Abbey, Westvleteren | Trappist, monks | Westvleteren | Lives on gifts |
| Tongerlo Abbey | Norbertine, canons | Westerlo | |
| Westmalle Abbey | Trappist, monks | Westmalle |
Flemish Brabant
| House | Order | Town | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keizersberg Abbey (Mont-César), Leuven | Benedictine, monks | Leuven | Common life is suspended. The last four monks, living in a separate wing, were required to live in other abbeys from November 2024, and in July 2025 the abbot president of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation announced the community's temporary dissolution after allegations of transgressive behavior between adults; complaints were passed to the prosecutor. The rest of the large complex is let to entrepreneurs, artists and students and is run as a 'village' with meeting rooms and coworking. |
| Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament, Halle (Sacramentines) | Sacramentine nuns (Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament), nuns | Halle | |
| Monastery of the Visitation, Kraainem | Visitation, nuns | Kraainem | The only Visitation monastery in the Benelux, in a protected building by Dom Paul Bellot. A petition of 6 November 2021 said the community was threatened with closure and the monastery with sale to a property developer. A non-profit, vzw Convento, registered in September 2023 at Hebronlaan 1 on the same estate, is converting 'a former convent in Kraainem' (main building about 3,500 m2) into homes and support for single-parent families, due by mid-2026, with families already in temporary units since early 2025. The COREB directory still listed a prioress in 2025, so the closure date is not confirmed. |
| Poor Clare Monastery, Leuven | Poor Clare, nuns | Leuven |
Liège
| House | Order | Town | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey of La Paix Notre-Dame, Liège | Benedictine, nuns | Liège | No appeal found |
| Benedictine Monastery of the Annunciation, Liège | Benedictine, nuns | Liège | No appeal found |
Limburg
| House | Order | Town | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre of Kuringen (Herkenrode) | Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, nuns | Kuringen (Hasselt) | The sisters no longer live at Herkenrode: the URV directory gives the community only a postal contact through the Sisters of the Child Jesus at Oostakker. The date the house closed was not found. |
| Dominican nuns of Herne (no remaining monastery) | Dominican, nuns | Lummen | Belgium no longer has a monastery of Dominican nuns. The monastery at Herne closed at the end of December 2010 (the Sint-Jansberg monastery at Zelem had closed earlier); the URV directory keeps only a postal contact in Lummen, and Kerknet describes the remaining nun as living with the apostolic Dominican sisters at Lubbeek. |
| Mariënlof Abbey, Kerniel (closed) | Cistercian, nuns | Kerniel (Borgloon) | Cistercian nuns lived here from 1822 and the house was raised to an abbey in 1990. In May 2020 it became known that the last sisters had left; the site was bought by a property developer for a new use. The URV directory still lists the abbey among Cistercian nuns. |
| Poor Clare Monastery, Genk (closed) | Poor Clare, nuns | Genk | Closed in February 2017 after 87 years: the last Mass in the chapel was on 19 February 2017 and the last two sisters moved to a residential care home in Zonhoven, where the Flemish federation directory still lists them. The future of the site was undecided at the time. |
| Poor Clare Monastery, Tongeren | Poor Clare, nuns | Tongeren |
Wallonia
| House | Order | Town | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey of Notre-Dame de Clairefontaine, Cordemois | Cistercian, nuns | Bouillon | |
| Abbey of Notre-Dame de la Paix, Chimay | Trappist, nuns | Chimay | |
| Benedictine Sisters of the Moulin de Maredsous | Benedictine, nuns | Denée | No appeal found |
| Brialmont Abbey | Trappist, nuns | Tilff (Esneux) | Closing or moving |
| Carmel of Argenteuil, Waterloo | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Waterloo | |
| Carmel of Boussu | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Boussu | |
| Carmel of Floreffe (now in Namur) | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Namur | Lives on gifts |
| Chevetogne Abbey | Benedictine, monks | Chevetogne | |
| Leffe Abbey | Norbertine, canons | Dinant | |
| Maredret Abbey | Benedictine, nuns | Maredret | No appeal found |
| Maredsous Abbey | Benedictine, monks | Denée | Appeal open |
| Monastère de la Vigne, Ciney | Benedictine, nuns | Ciney | |
| Monastery of Notre-Dame d'Hurtebise | Benedictine, nuns | Saint-Hubert | Lives on gifts |
| Monastery of Notre-Dame, Ermeton-sur-Biert | Benedictine, nuns | Ermeton-sur-Biert | Closed: the Monastery of Notre-Dame d'Ermeton was suppressed by decree of the Dicastery for Consecrated Life dated 9 January 2020. Four sisters continue monastic life at the Moulin de Maredsous (listed separately), canonically members of the Abbey of Ahuatepec, Mexico. The Fondation des Monastères donation form still offers Ermeton as a beneficiary. |
| Monastery of Saint-André de Clerlande | Benedictine, monks | Ottignies | |
| Monastery of Saint-Remacle, Wavreumont | Benedictine, monks | Wavreumont (Stavelot) | |
| Monastery of the Alliance, Rixensart | Benedictine, nuns | Rixensart | Lives on gifts |
| Orval Abbey | Trappist, monks | Villers-devant-Orval | |
| Rochefort Abbey | Trappist, monks | Rochefort | |
| Scourmont Abbey (Chimay) | Trappist, monks | Forges (Chimay) | |
| Soleilmont Abbey | Trappist, nuns | Fleurus |
Walloon Brabant
| House | Order | Town | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carmel of Louvain-la-Neuve (Profondval), Court-Saint-Étienne | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Court-Saint-Étienne | |
| Monastery of Saint Charbel, Bois-Seigneur-Isaac | Lebanese Maronite Order (monks), monks | Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac (Braine-l'Alleud) | Lives on gifts |
West Flanders
| House | Order | Town | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canonesses of Saint Augustine of Our Lady ter Nieuwe Plant (Roesbrugge Dames), Ypres | Augustinian, nuns | Ypres | Extinct: the last sister of the community died at the beginning of April 2024, ending a history that began in the 1200s. |
| Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre of Sint-Trudo, Bruges | Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, nuns | Bruges (Assebroek) | |
| Carmel of Blankenberge (now at Sint-Michiels, Bruges) | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Sint-Michiels (Bruges) | |
| Carmel of Kortrijk (closed) | Discalced Carmelite, nuns | Kortrijk | The priory at Grote Kring 4 has closed and the remaining sisters live in the Sint-Vincentius care home in Kortrijk. The date of closure was not found. |
| English Convent of Our Lady of Nazareth, Bruges | Augustinian, nuns | Bruges | Lives on gifts |
| Passionist nuns of Tielt (now Kortrijk) | Passionist, nuns | Kortrijk | The Tielt monastery of Passionist nuns founded the Gemma monastery in Sittard in the 1930s. The URV directory now lists the Passionistinnen's 'monasterium' at a flat in Kortrijk since December 2014 (previously Moorseelsestraat 148, Heule) and a regional house in Tielt since 2014 (previously Klooster Mater Dolorosa, Blekerijstraat 22), describing the institute as of mixed life. No longer a working enclosed monastery. |
| Poor Clare Monastery, Ostend | Poor Clare, nuns | Oostende | |
| Saint Peter's Abbey, Steenbrugge | Benedictine, monks | Assebroek (Bruges) | No appeal found |