Pilgrim Fathers Church
Fifteenth-century harbourside church where English Pilgrims prayed before sailing for America.
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This guide to the Pilgrim Fathers Church in Rotterdam's old harbour of Delfshaven goes back to a summer night in sixteen twenty, when a small band of English religious dissenters waited by the quay with a little ship called the Speedwell. It draws on the words of William Bradford, one of them, and on the rituals of leave-taking they kept before the tide turned. Inside, you'll also hear about a cracked bell older than the voyage itself.
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