De Noorderkerk in de winter

The city’s master builder Hendrick Jacobsz Staets (1558–1631) completed the Noorderkerk (North Church) in 1623. Hendrick de Keyser (1565–1621), the architect of the church, had died two years earlier. The city extensions of the first quarter of the 17th prompted the building of several new churches in the residential areas encircled by the horseshoe of new canals and in the Jordaan district. The North Church was the first church building in Amsterdam to comply fully with the architectural requirements of the protestant service. The sermon, and so the pulpit too, are central to the service. Abraham Beerstraten specialized in cityscapes. His winter impression of people enjoying the ice on Prinsengracht near Anjeliersgracht (called Westerstraat since the canal was filled in 1861). A woman on the ice is selling mussels. On the right men are playing dice.

De Noorderkerk in de winter

The city’s master builder Hendrick Jacobsz Staets (1558–1631) completed the Noorderkerk (North Church) in 1623. Hendrick de Keyser (1565–1621), the architect of the church, had died two years earlier. The city extensions of the first quarter of the 17th prompted the building of several new churches in the residential areas encircled by the horseshoe of new canals and in the Jordaan district. The North Church was the first church building in Amsterdam to comply fully with the architectural requirements of the protestant service. The sermon, and so the pulpit too, are central to the service. Abraham Beerstraten specialized in cityscapes. His winter impression of people enjoying the ice on Prinsengracht near Anjeliersgracht (called Westerstraat since the canal was filled in 1861). A woman on the ice is selling mussels. On the right men are playing dice.