Monuments in Noord-Holland

R. Stenvert en C. Kolman (2006)

Gepubliceerd op 26-03-2018

The Comenius chapel in Naarden

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(at Kloosterstraat 29) is a late Gothic, three-sided closed chapel, built around 1440 for the Mariaconvent of the tertiaries of St. Francis. From 1651 the chapel was in use by the Walloon municipality. In 1813-14 the French used this space as a prison and in 1862 the chapel came into the possession of the Empire, which the neighboring orphanage already had in use as a barracks. In 1933-'37 the chapel was replaced by B.T. Deenik turned into a Comenius mausoleum, after the excavation of the tomb of the Czech theologian, educationalist and printer Jan Amos Comenius († 1670). J. Benda designed the etched glasses, the choir fence is by J. Horejc (1937). The chapel has been part of the Comenius Museum since 1994.