North Church Photo: the Northern Church

North Church – the Protestant Church of the seventeenth century in Amsterdam. The Church was built in 1620-1623. in connection with rapid population growth in Jordan – one of the city of Amsterdam. In this area there was already a Church called West, but it was not enough. Parishioners of the Northern churches were mostly ordinary citizens, while the Western Church attended mostly wealthy picking.

The author of the project was the famous Dutch architect Hendrick de Keyser. He is the author of southern and Western Church in Amsterdam. After his death in 1621, the Church building was completed under the leadership of his son, Peter de Keyser. The southern and Western Church are a traditional Basilica, North of the Church in terms of a symmetric and a Phillips that is more consistent with the ideals of the Renaissance and Protestantism. A unique project de Keyser combines octagonal floor and a Greek cross with four beams of equal length. In the corners of the cross there are small outbuildings, and in the centre of the building rises a tower.

Large-scale restoration was carried out in the Church in 1993-1998, the tower was restored in 2003-2004, and the organ built in 1849, was updated in 2005. The bell tower was built in 1621. In the Church is still holding services, it belongs to the Dutch reformed Church. It also regularly hosts classical music concerts. In 1941, in North Church held a secret meeting on the preparation of the February strike, what resembles a plaque on the South wall of the Church.

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