Oude Kerk

This is amsterdam’s oldest building – the Old Curch. Founded circa 1213, consecrated in 1306. It became a Calvinist church in 1578 and remains so today. It use to be a place locals would gather, to gossip, peddlers sold their goods and beggars sought shelter but this was all stopped by the Calvinists in 1681. Even the choir was closed off with an oak screen, above which reads today - The prolonged misuse of God’s church, were here undone again in the year of seventy eight – referring to the reformation of 1578.

The floor of the church is entirely of gravestones. The reason for this is that the church was built on a cemetery. Local citizens continued to be buried on the site until 1865. There are 2,500 graves in side the church and 10,000 graves under the church. Which may make this most haunted location in Amsterdam.