Luingne

Luingne (/lwin/ LWEEN; French pronunciation: [lwin] or [lɥiɲ]; Dutch: Lowingen; Picard: Loinne) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Mouscron, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

In 1801, Napoleon created the diocese of Ghent and Luingne (like Mouscron and Herseaux) became part of the deanery of Menin.

In 1932, Monsignor Lamiroy, bishop of Bruges, created a French-speaking deanery within his Flemish diocese, grouping together Mouscron-Comines and the surroundings.

A condemnation for iconoclast destructions committed in the church of Luingne on 24 August 1566 is known thanks to a judgement in Courtrai.

A new church, in a neo-Gothic style, named Saint-Amand replaced it at a cost of 40,129 Belgian francs.