Inside Pieterskerk, Leiden
Pieterskerk (Peter's Church) is an impressive Gothic church in Leiden, built largely in the 15th century. It's famous for many things, including a restored van Hagerbeer organ, one of the few meantone-tuned organs, as well as the final resting places of English Puritan leader John Robinson*, Dutch physician Hermanus Boerhaave, and painter Jan Steen.
* In the 17th c., Holland was a tolerant refuge for English Puritans. English pastor John Robinson (1575 to 1625) founded a church in Leiden in 1609, where he dreamt of leading his congregation to the New World (America) free of religious prosecution. This group of religious and political dissenters were known as the Pilgrim Fathers. In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers arrived in the United States on the Mayflower, but Pastor Robinson was too ill to be on the ship. He died and was buried in Leiden's Pieterskerk in 1625.
Inside Pieterskerk, Leiden
Pieterskerk (Peter's Church) is an impressive Gothic church in Leiden, built largely in the 15th century. It's famous for many things, including a restored van Hagerbeer organ, one of the few meantone-tuned organs, as well as the final resting places of English Puritan leader John Robinson*, Dutch physician Hermanus Boerhaave, and painter Jan Steen.
* In the 17th c., Holland was a tolerant refuge for English Puritans. English pastor John Robinson (1575 to 1625) founded a church in Leiden in 1609, where he dreamt of leading his congregation to the New World (America) free of religious prosecution. This group of religious and political dissenters were known as the Pilgrim Fathers. In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers arrived in the United States on the Mayflower, but Pastor Robinson was too ill to be on the ship. He died and was buried in Leiden's Pieterskerk in 1625.