Westerkerk – Amsterdam

Westerkerk was built between 1620 and 1631 Renaissance style according to projects by Architect Hendrick de Keyser. He is buried in the church that he projected earlier: the ‘zuiderkerk’. The construction of Westerkerk was completed and completed by his son Pieter of Keyser and inaugurated on June 8, 1631. The church is 58 meters long (190 feet) and 29 meters wide (95 feet). The high nave is flanked by the two lower runners. The three -nave basilica has a rectangular plant with two equal dimensions transeptos. As a result, the plant of this church received the form of two Greek crosses connected to each other. (a patriarchal cross). Several ancient churches in Amsterdam, such as Ode Kerk and Nieuwe Kerk, were originally built before the reform and were converted to Protestantism during the reform in 1578. Westerkerk was one of the first Protestant churches purposely built. Noorderkerk and Zuiderkerk preceded Westerkerk. Today, Westerkerk remains the largest church in the Netherlands built for Protestants and is still used by PKN (Protestantse Kerk in Nederland) the tower, called Westerrenren (“Western Tower”), is the 87 meter (± 286 feet) Tower of Amsterdam. It is not known who was the tower designer. Keyser’s Hendrick designed an octagonal tower to the tower that was never built. It is suggested that Jacob Van Campen was the designer. The crown at the top of the tower is the imperial crown of Austria of Maximilian I (tagstotranslate) CMXYQ97

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