Sunday, March 17, 2013

Amsterdam. Again. Gassan Diamonds & Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder

Gassan Diamonds, Nieuwe Uilenburgstraat 173-175, Amsterdam

Gassan Diamonds is located in a former steam-driven diamond factory in the center of Amsterdam. You can watch diamond cutters at work while a guide tells you all about diamond processing.

all together worth a nice car? a horse? a home?

can you see the diamond?
(I think he was working on a 0,5 carat diamond)

57 facets brilliant cut or 121 Gassan cut?


Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 40, Amsterdam

Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder (Our Lord in the Attick) is a 17th century canal house, house church and museum in the city centre of Amsterdam. The Catholic Church was built on the top three floors of a canal house during the 1660s. It is an important example of a "schuilkerk" (clandestine church) in which Catholics and other religious dissenters from the seventeeth century Dutch Reformed Church, unable to worship in public, held services. Since 1888, the church is open as a museum.





17th century dutch kitchen and loo

1 comment:

  1. Hi,

    Thanks for sharing. I would like to know where you got the 'look-through' image (4th from the top). I would like to use a high-res version of it for an article.

    Thanks

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