Sint-Franciscus Xaveriuskerk
The Sint-Franciscus Xaveriuskerk—known locally as the Krijtberg—belongs to a long Jesuit story on this spot. Jesuit worship here goes back to 1654, with a clandestine church replaced in 1677, before the current Neo-Gothic building took shape on the same space in 1881. The architect was Wilhelm Victor Alfred Tepe, and although the structure was built in 1881, it opened in 1883; the design responds to tight site limits by reaching unusually tall, with a monumental front and two pointed towers. Inside, the exuberant work is associated with Friedrich Wilhelm Mengelberg, and much of the interior has survived. This church sits within the UNESCO World Heritage “Seventeenth-century canal ring area of Amsterdam,” inscribed in 2010, where Catholic revival architecture is woven into a historic canal setting. …
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