Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder
Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder—“Our Lord in the Attic”—is a Roman Catholic house church hidden inside a canal house on Oudezijds Voorburgwal. The canal house itself was built in 1630, and between 1661 and 1663 the top three floors were converted into a schuilkerk, allowing Catholics and other dissenters to worship when public worship was restricted under Protestant rule in the Dutch Republic. Today you’re at a building with a long afterlife as a museum: after the Church of St Nicholas opened, this house church fell out of regular use, and on 28 April 1888 it opened to the public as a museum—later known as Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder. It is now a heritage site with 85,000 visitors annually, and its listing as rijksmonument 6107 ties the underground practice of faith to Amsterdam’s later culture of preservation. In 2024, the museum received the European Heritage Label.
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