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The church is built on a mound. In the wall on the south side pans are processed to date from Roman times. The church is dedicated to St. Clement, a pope in the first century. This may indicate that an early church stood. In 1234 there was a meeting place of the deanery Susteren. The minutes of that meeting is "John priest of Merkelbeek ', which means that the parish was already Merkelbeek was independent. The St. Clement Church until 1879 served as a parish, then he served as a monastery of the Sisters of the Precious Blood Love and later the Benedictines (1900) and since 1923 the Carmelite Fathers (until 1965). In 1879 the church was part of the monastery later known as the House Tieder. When Tieder House in June 2009 it was demolished, the church remained with the monuments (the wall, the Lourdes Grotto, and the tomb) is retained ----------------------------------------------------- murals In 2008 the Foundation for Restoration Atelier Limburg (SRAL), commissioned by the municipality of Brunssum, an exploration carried color. It was behind the whitewash layers and textured paint colorful paintings found in 1901 by Dom church painter Jacob Romanus were made. According to the municipality of Brunssum, the church rebuilt around 1900 by the Benedictines. This would not have been satisfied with the result and therefore Dom Romanus Jacobs asked to bring new murals. In 1901 however, the parish of Merkelbeek into use. It would therefore be that the changes in the Clement Church, which also once served as a parish church, accompanied them. Currently, the SRAL busy Fri laying the murals and decorations (the schijndraperieën on the walls of the choir and the paintings in the window frames) in the church. Thereafter, the paintings and some of the decorations are likely to be restored.