Kalverstraat

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H.H Petrus en Pauluskerk: de Papegaai

Petrus and Paulus church,
Kalverstraat 58
It is a Roman Catholic church built 1848 by Gerrit Moele jr. in early neo-Gothic style. It is also called De Papegaai (the parrot). The church used to be a hidden church because After the reformation, the 'alteratie' 1578, Catholic churches in the Netherlands were forbidden any outward appearance of a Church.

 

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