The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul (De Papegaai) is a former Roman Catholic hidden church founded in 1672. The current building is a reconstruction of the mid-nineteenth century in neo-Gothic style, the first in this style in Amsterdam.
The Sint-Nicolaaskerk (old church) was inaugurated at the end of the 14th century. The building was damaged by the city's fire of 1421 and 1452, but more seriously by the fire of 1645, after which date most of the interior. After the Alteratia of 1578, the church became Protestant. The Nieuwe Kerk, since 1814, is used for royal investitures and weddings. Nowadays, it is also one of the main exhibition centres in Amsterdam.
Ever since the beguinage was founded at the beginning of the fourteenth century, there has been a chapel on this site. When the English Protestants took over the medieval chapel in 1604 , the Catholic beguines went to church elsewhere in the beguinage. In 1665 , two houses on this site were merged into one church space. On 2 July 1671, the first stone was laid for the major renovation into a fully-fledged church space based on a design by Philips Vingboons.
The English Reformed Church is an old Catholic church reopened in 1607 as an English Protestant church. Since the late 1970s, she has played an important role in chamber music in Amsterdam.
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