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Taken: Circa 1907
Caption: Domkerk, or St. Martin's Cathedral - Postcard View from the Dom Tower
Additional Description: The Footsteps marker site would be just to the right of the entrance on the right side of the photograph, while the Sodomy Trials marker and Resistance monument would be where the people are standing. (See Photo 4.)

St. Martin's Cathedral, Utrecht, or Dom Church (Dutch: Domkerk), was the cathedral of the Diocese of Utrecht during the Middle Ages. Once the Netherlands' largest church, dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, it is the country's only pre-Reformation cathedral. It has been a Protestant church since 1580. The building is the one church in the Netherlands that closely resembles the style of classic Gothic architecture as developed in France. All other Gothic churches in the Netherlands belong to one of the many regional variants. Unlike most of its French predecessors, the building has only one tower, the 112-metre-high (367 ft) Dom Tower, which is the hallmark of the city....In 1674 the central portion of the cathedral with the nave collapsed in a storm, a tornado ripped through Utrecht causing many to die and split the cathedral in two. It has never been rebuilt, leaving the tower now isolated from the east end. -- Wikipedia
Submitted: December 24, 2016, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p372674
File Size: 0.312 Megabytes

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