H.H. Johannes en Ursula

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.

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.

In 1631, the city of Amsterdam gave permission to build a new church building on the site of the seven buildings. The church was put into use in 1633. The church is built on an irregular ground plan. The interior is rectangular in shape, surrounded by galleries that rest on Ionic and Tuscan columns . Doric columns support the roof structure. The pulpit dates from 1640.