Mozes en Aäronkerk

Interior

The Mozes en Aäronkerk ( Mose and Aaron Church ; officially St. Antonius Church) is a Roman Catholic church on Waterlooplein in Amsterdam , which is now mainly used as an event center.

history

In the first centuries after the Reformation , public Roman Catholic worship was banned in Amsterdam. Since 1649, the Franciscans (OFM) have held Saints in a town house converted into a house church . Fair ; soon the neighboring house was also included. This pair of houses was called Moyses en Aäron after the Old Testament brothers ; the name passed on to the house church and its successors and replaced the Antonius patronage in popular parlance .

The house church was expanded and architecturally upgraded in the 17th and 18th centuries, but remained without a tower and hidden behind the two gables. Only when the restrictions on Catholic worship were lifted at the turn of the 19th century did the Franciscans plan a representative new building on the same site, which could be realized as the Water State Church from 1837–1841 based on a design by Tieleman Franciscus Suys .

Building

The church is a classicist three-aisled hall church with a retracted rectangular choir . In front of the brick building is a portal front made of light-colored stone, modeled on an ancient temple, the ridge of which bears a statue of the blessing Christ; there are two two-story lantern towers on either side . The choir is also clad on the outside with an antique, light-colored gable.

Furnishing

The interior, which is kept entirely in white, is dominated by a large baroque altar that comes from the previous building.

organ

The organ was built in 1871 by the Adema brothers (Leeuwarden) in 1871. Some of the pipes were supplied by the organ builder Cavaillé Coll. The instrument was last restored in 1993–1994 by the Flentrop organ building company . The instrument has 48 registers on three manuals and a pedal. Each individual work is divided into basic parts and combination registers.

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Principal	16 ′
2.	Covered	16 ′
3.	Principal	8th'
4th	Portal	8th'
5.	Covered	8th'
6th	Fifth	5 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
7th	Principal	4 ′
8th.	Principal	2 ′
	Combination register
9.	diapason	8th'
10.	diapason	4 ′
11.	Mixture IV-VII
12.	Kornet III-V
13.	Ripieno II
14th	baritone	16 ′
15th	Trumpet	8th'
16.	Trumpet	4 ′

II Swell C – g ³
17th	Quintatön	16 ′
18th	violoncello	8th'
19th	Vox coelestis	8th'
20th	Fluit	8th'
21st	Dwarsfluit	4 ′
	Combination register
22nd	Fifth flute	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
23.	Piccolo	2 ′
24.	third	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
25th	Trumpet	8th'
26th	Vox Humana	8th'
	Tremulant

III threshold positive C-g ³
27.	Violon	16 ′
28.	Salicional	8th'
29	Violon	8th'
30th	Covered	8th'
31.	Violon	4 ′
32.	Covered	4 ′
	Combination register
33.	Kwint-Viool	3 ′
34.	Viool	2 ′
35.	Mixture II-VI
36.	Bassoon	16 ′
37.	Bassoon hobo	8th'

Pedal C – f ¹
38.	Sub bass	32 ′
39.	Open bass	16 ′
40.	Contrabass	16 ′
41.	Covered	16 ′
42.	Open bass	8th'
43.	violoncello	8th'
44.	Quintbass	10 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
	Combination register
45.	Open bass	4 ′
46.	Bazuin	16 ′
47.	Trumpet	8th'
48.	Trumpet	4 ′

Chronogram

On the architrave of the portal gable is a Latin chronogram pointing to the year 1842:

Q U AE F UI T A SAE CLI S S U B S I GNO M O Y S I S ET AARON

STAT SA LV ATOR I RENO V ATA ILLU STR I OR AE D ES.

"The building that has been under the sign of Moses and Aaron for centuries,

stands there, renewed for the Savior, more glamorous. "

Individual evidence

↑ More information about the organ

Web links

Commons : Church of Moses and Aaron - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

History of the Church (Dutch)

52.368277777778 4.9032777777778Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 5.8 " N , 4 ° 54 ′ 11.8" E

[1] More information about the organ