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Key to Floorplan
Ground floor THE ALTERATION
3 First floor
Second floor The revolt of the
9 (Calvinist) Northern
Third floor Netherlands against
1 Fourth floor the (Catholic) Spanish
2 Fifth floor Habsburgs began in
5 The Rear 1568, but it was not
7 until 1578 when
Houses
0 The rear houses were Amsterdam joined
gradually taken over by William of Orange in
6 the church, but there are a peaceful revolution
still signs of their original known as the Alteration.
4 use as family rooms. Calvinists seized power
and the city became the
Protestant capital of an
infant Dutch Republic.
Catholics couldn’t
worship in public, but
Dutch tolerance ensured
that they were able to
continue in private.
NEED TO KNOW
MAP P2 • Oudezijds
Voorburgwal 38–40
• 020 624 6604
• www.opsolder.nl
Open 10am–5pm Mon–
Sat, 1–5pm Sun, public
hols • Closed 27 Apr
Admission: €10, children
5–18 €5
• The audio tour is free,
The Building
The Folding
8 9 and for an extra €1
Pulpit
there is a Ladybird in
The spout-gabled
canal house was built in The ingenious pulpit was the Attic tour for kids.
1661 for Jan Hartman, a designed to fold away • Limited wheelchair
Catholic merchant. He under the left column of access. A special tour can
combined its attic with the altar when not in be arranged in advance.
the attics of two smaller use. The painting above • There’s a museum
houses behind to create the altar is The Baptism shop and café.
the hidden church, which of Christ by Jacob de Wit • Sunday Mass is on 1st
was extended in c.1735. (1695–1754).
Sunday of the month.
The Kitchen
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Once part of the
sacristan’s secret living
quarters, the charming
17th-century kitchen
(left) has original Delft
wall tiles, an open
hearth, stone sink and
black-and-white floor.

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