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Here, the nickname comes from two gablestones depicting Moses and Aäron on the house fronts that hid a clandestine church within. It was replaced in 1841 by the present Neo-Classical building, its towers inspired by St Sulpice in Paris.

Made popular by Philips Vingboons, this gable has a raised centrepiece;Oude Turfmarkt 145is an example.

The second parish church in Amsterdam was built after the congregation outgrew the Oude Kerk. Burnt down several times, its oldest part is the choir, dating from around 1400 (see Nieuwe Kerk, Nieuwe Kerk).

Hendrick de Keyser’s last church, begun a year before he died in 1621 (its completion was supervised by his son Pieter), is quite different in style. Built for the poor of the Jordaan, it is an austere brick building with only the shortest of spires. Designed on a Greek Cross plan, it has a central pulpit and four hipped roofs.

Seen from the courtyard, the impressive red-brick façade, with its ornate entrance and stonedressed windows, was the height of corporate fashion. Headquarters of the once mighty Dutch East India Company (VOC), it was built in 1605, probably by Hendrick de Keyser, and is now part of Amsterdam University. The 17th-century meeting room of the VOC lords has been restored.

The oldest and greatest of Amsterdam’s churches(see Oude Kerk).

This sober, monumental building in Empire style is a conversion of the Almoners’ Orphanage by city architect Jan de Greef.

Carvings often decorate the triangular or rounded form above doorways: see the Felix Meritis Building.

Named after the Portuguese merchant Isaac de Pinto, who paid an exorbitant 30,000 guilders for it in 1651, the building has an impressive Italianate façade and ceiling paintings by Jacob de Wit.

Designed as shipping company offices by van der Mey, de Klerk and Kramer, this fanciful building (1916) is smothered in nautical whimsy – mariners, monsters, and mermaids.