Zuiderkerk

Zuiderkerk was built in the 17th Century.
Zuid, meaning South or Southern
and Kerk, meaning church.

This was the first Protestant church built in Amsterdam.

Monet painted a picture of this scene and it is hanging in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

During the Hongerwinter ("winter of hunger") of WWII, (1944-1945), because food was so scarce in the Netherlands, the church was used as a temporary morgue because people were dying faster than they could be buried.
In addition, three of Rembrandt's children were also buried here.