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Oosterkerk

The Oosterkerk dates from 1671. The Eastern Islands were then the bustling heart of Amsterdam's shipbuilding and maritime trade, with the yards and warehouses of the Dutch East India Company on Oostenburg and the shipyard of the Admiralty on Kattenburg. The church was used for Reformed worship until the building had to be closed in the 1960s due to dilapidation. In 1969, the Municipality of Amsterdam bought the monumental building for the symbolic sum of one guilder.