St. Lawrence Church
Late Gothic church whose tower and walls survived the 1940 bombing, rebuilt whole by 1968.
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About this audio guide
This guide to St. Lawrence Church in Rotterdam starts in nineteen fifty-two, with Queen Juliana laying a stone among walls that should not still be standing, then goes back to the bombing of May nineteen forty and the wooden scaffolding wrapped around the tower that day. It follows the postwar argument over whether a burned-out church belonged in a city rebuilding itself as modern, and the architect who had a different idea. Stand near the bronze doors at the foot of the tower to listen.
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