Alphons Boosten

His works include several large housing complexes and more than twenty churches.

Early in his career Boosten shortly formed a partnership with Jos Ritzen [nl],[1] which resulted in several houses in expressionist style, the new church of Eygelshoven and the church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Maastricht.

Especially due to the unconventional design of the latter, the architects were not granted assignments for further churches, and Ritzen moved to Antwerp in 1924.

Boosten's career reached a height after the Second World War, in which many churches in Limburg had been destroyed and needed replacement.

His son worked are 'foreman' on many of his projects, one such example is the landmark gymnasium at The College Weert [nl].

The Koepelkerk ("Cupola Church") of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Maastricht