In the “Nieuwe Kerk”

This is the interior of the Nienwe Kerk (“New Church”) in the old Dutch city of Delft, The Netherlands. A late gothic cruciform basilica, built in the years 1384-1495. The chancel has twelve pillars (representing the twelve Apostles). The nave of the church has sixteen columns (representing the sixteen prophets in the Bible). In 1536 the tower was partly destroyed but rebuilt, but the bells, the organ and the stained glass of all the windows was lost. When all was restored, in 1654, a...