Nieuwe Kerk

Built as a Roman Catholic Church with the original name St. Joseph Church. Architecturally extremely important, beautiful work within the oeuvre of EJ Margry, especially because of the front facade with two non-identical towers of 72 m, but also because of many other details in the interior (see also descriptions below). Because of the devotion to Maria van Jesse, up to and including the present, in a side chapel to the left of the choir, this church has been officially called "Maria van Jesse Church" since about the beginning of the 1970s. Popularly, this church was, and is, called "Burgwal Church".

Built as a "Darbi Church" (Assembly of Believers).

Around 1240, civil servant Bartholomeus van der Made took the initiative to expand the church with two aisles and a choir. But when Count Willem II granted the bustling town of Delft city rights in 1246, that was considered the official 'birth year' of the Oude Kerk. At that time, the church was still named after Saint Bartholomew, the patron saint of the founder. In the centuries that followed, the place of worship developed into an impressive Gothic basilica. But the Oude Kerk still exudes something of the atmosphere of the Middle Ages.