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Services are held on Sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. The church is open to visitors during Saturday afternoons in July and August and occasionally on Saturday afternoons throughout the year.
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View of Leiden towards the North. The Marekerk was the tallest building on the horizon, until the Catholic church Hartebrugkerk (center) was built with a taller tower in 1836.
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from 1663 with a diameter of 98.6 cm. The mechanical clock in the tower is by B. Eijsbouts in 1941, an electric winding mechanism was added later.
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and it was moved to the Marekerk in 1733 and enlarged by Rudolph Garrels. It was restored in 1966 by Flentrop Orgelbouw.
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has a church bell by C. Wegewaert from 1647, with a diameter of 202.7 cm and it has a bell by
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on Rapenburg 25. It was one of the first churches in the Netherlands designed specifically for
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in 1659. The organ was built by Pieter de Swart around 1560 for the choir of the
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church services. It was opened in 1649. The main entrance was designed by
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Other 17th century "round" churches of the Netherlands:
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52°9′43″N 4°29′26″E / 52.16194°N 4.49056°E / 52.16194; 4.49056
Netherlands
Denomination
Architect(s)
Arent van 's-Gravesande
Style
Dutch Baroque
Parish
Protestant
church
Leiden
Burcht van Leiden


Arent van 's-Gravesande
Bibliotheca Thysiana
Protestant
Jacob van Campen
Pieterskerk
carillon
Francois Hemony
Ronde Lutherse Kerk
Amsterdam
Oostkerk
Middelburg
Rijksmonument
25069

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