The Halles de Schaerbeek (French) or Hallen van Schaarbeek (Dutch) is a cultural centre in Brussels, Belgium.
It is located at 22, rue Royale Sainte-Marie/Koninklijke Sinte-Mariastraat in Schaerbeek, in the former Sainte-Marie covered market, built in 1865 and destroyed by a fire in 1898.
It is the work of the architect Henry Van Massenhove,[2] constructed in 1901 with the help of the constructor Bertaux, specialist in metallic structures.
The new market remained active until around 1920, but the gradual appearance of supermarkets and numerous department stores caused its decline.
For fifty years, the building stayed abandoned, sometimes serving as a parking lot, as a storage place or even as an adventure playground for the district's children.