Sint Janskerk

The Sint Janskerk in Gouda, the Netherlands, is a huge Gothic church, regarded specially for its stained glass home windows, for which it has been located on the UNESCO listing of Dutch monuments. The church is dedicated to John the Baptist, the customer saint of Gouda, and turned into constructed in the course of the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1552 a large a part of the church burned, along with the information. Most facts of the early duration is taken from the diaries of Ignatius Walvis. Around 1350 a tower was built. In 1485 the foundation became constructed for the present-day choir.

This growth made the church the longest in the Netherlands, with a period of 123 meters. The stained glass windows were made and mounted generally through the brothers Dirk and Wouter Crabeth I, inside the years 1555-1571, and after a short prevent for the Protestant Reformation, till 1603. During the Reformation the church changed into spared, due to the fact the metropolis fathers sided with the reigning king Philip II of Spain, in place of William the Silent, representing the Orange rebels. Later, after the orangists conquered the northern half of of Holland, Gouda reverted to Orange in 1572.