Vondelkerk

This guide to Vondelkerk in Amsterdam tells the story of a church that has burned twice: once in 1904, when architect Pierre Cuypers watched his own tower collapse and his son Joseph stepped in to rebuild it, and again just after midnight on New Year's Day 2026. You'll hear how the building came to be the first in the world dedicated to the Sacred Heart, funded by a national lottery and gifts as far away as the Vatican. It closes with the question the ruin now poses to the city around it.