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Museum Amstelkring Review
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Museum Amstelkring 
- Address: Oudezijds Voorburgwal 40, Centrum, Amsterdam
- Phone: 020/624-6604
- www.museumamstelkring.nl
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Our Lord in the Attic Museum
- Category: Museums/Galleries, Religious Sites
- Location: Old City Center
Fodor's Review:
With its elegant gray-and-white facade and spout gable, this appears to be just another lovely canal house, and on the lower floors it is. But tucked away in the attic is the only surviving schuilkerk (clandestine church) that dates from the Reformation, when open worship by Catholics was outlawed. The Oude Kerk was de-catholicized and stripped of its patron, St. Nicholas, so this little church was dedicated to him until the Sint Nicolaaskerk was built. The chapel itself is a triumph of Dutch classicist taste, with magnificent marble columns, gilded capitals, a colored-marble altar, and the Baptism of Christ (1716) painting by Jacob de Wit presiding over all. Sunday services and weddings are still offered here. The lower floors are also beautifully preserved and shouldn't be missed.
- Cost: EUR 7
- Open: Mon.-Sat. 10-5, Sun. 1-5
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