Churches
- Oude Kerk, Old Church (ca. 1306).
- Nieuwe Kerk, New Church (1408).
- Zuiderkerk, Southern Church, the city's first church built specifically for protestant services (1603–1611).
- Noorderkerk, Northern Church (1620–1623).
- Westerkerk, Western Church, finished in 1638 after a design by Hendrick de Keyser.
- Oosterkerk, Eastern Church, construction was completed in 1671.
- Ronde Lutherse Kerk, the first round Lutheran church in the Netherlands, with a copper dome.
- English Reformed Church, Amsterdam, in fact part of the Church of Scotland. One of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, situated in the Begijnhof, right in the centre of the city.
- De Krijtberg, neo gothic twintowered church at the Singel canal.
- St Nicholas's, a neo-Renaissance and Baroque Roman Catholic church.
- De Duif, The Dove.
- Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder, Our Lord in the Attic, also known as Museum Amstelkring, a church hidden in an attic.
- De papegaai, The Parrot, located in the busy Kalverstraat. A neogothic church built in 1848.
- Mozes en Aäronkerk. Twin tower church on Waterloo square.
- Posthoornkerk.
- Amstelkerk.
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