Vondelkerk
Neo-Gothic church by Pierre Cuypers, the world's first dedicated to the Sacred Heart, twice fire-scarred and awaiting restoration.
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This guide to the Vondelkerk in Amsterdam opens just before one in the morning on New Year's Day 2026, with fireworks still bursting over Vondelstraat. It then goes back to 1978, when the diocese locked the doors of an unstable church, and to the architect who occupied it in 1981 to stop the wreckers. Best heard on the street outside, looking up at the brick walls.
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