St. Pieter's Kerk

St. Pieter's Kerk is a very tall church in Leiden.  It was the church beside which the Pilgrims lived.  It was also closed the day that I went because they were preparing for an event the next day.

This is the sign that says you can't go into the building.  It was sad because it looked like it was mighty pretty.  There was a choir practicing inside when I was walking around the church, though, and it sounded very pretty.

This is the little sign with information about the church and below is the English part of the text.  

Some of the Pilgrims who died in Leiden are buried inside the church.

This is a road sign right next to the church.  Note the directions to the Van der Werfpark, where I went; the Pilgrim Archives, which is currently closed because it is moving; the Sieboldhuis, where I went; and the Latijnse (Latin) School, where (I believe) Rembrandt attended school for a little while at around the same time as the Pilgrims were living there.

 This is one of the little streets leading away from the church.  I took this picture just after it was raining and just before it started with the torrential down-pours.  One good thing about streets this narrow is that, if you squish up against the wall, you can usually avoid at least some of the rain.  When the rain would get really bad then people would be lined up along the walls, waiting for a little break in the rain before they started off again.

I am fairly certain that the Pilgrim's houses would have been lined up just the other side of the church in this picture.