De Duif
De Duif—on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam—begins as a Roman Catholic answer to changing city needs. The church you see today was built in 1858, designed by architect Theo Molkenboer as the modern replacement for the older St. Willibrordus church, which had become too small. The earlier congregation had moved through a more dramatic story: the first visible St. Willibrordus church was built on the former sugar-factory site of “Het Fortuyn,” which burned down at the end of the 18th century, after which a century-old hidden church, “Het Vrededuifje,” was replaced. Architecturally, De Duif combines neo-classical construction with a neo-baroque front, and it is protected as a rijksmonument. Inside sits a Smits organ—also a rijksmonument—designed by Franciscus Cornelius Smits and his son, described as the largest built north of the big Dutch rivers, and taken into service on 25 September 2006 after restoration. …
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